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Columbia University Unveils Bronze Bust of Edwin Howard Armstrong and Michael Idvorsky Pupin on March 22, 2007 in the Engineering Building at Columbia University, New York

Above: Alma Mater, Columbia University, New York City.

Above: Columbia University, New York City.

Above:  Nikola Tesla Bust in Columbia University, donation of John Wagner.

Columbia University Unveils Bronze Bust of Edwin Howard Armstrong and Michael Idvorsky Pupin on March 22, 2007 in the Engineering Building at Columbia University, New York

Michael Idvorsky Pupin  (1858-1935)

Edwin Howard Armstrong  (1890-1954)
 

"Edwin Howard Armstrong discovered FM radio.  Armstrong was one of the most prolific inventors of the radio era, with a vision that was ahead of his time. He invented the Regenerative circuit (invented while he was a junior in college at Columbia University, New York City, and patented 1914), the Super-regenerative circuit (patented 1922), and the Superheterodyne receiver (patented 1918).^[2] The latter was developed when Armstrong was in the Army during World War I. Stationed in France, he rose to the rank of major. For the rest of his life his friends informally addressed him by that title. "
(Paragraph and full article can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Armstrong )

Above: Introduction by Prof. Ed Coffman, Ceremony Master.

Above: Zvi Galil, Dean, School of Engineering, Columbia University.

Above: Prof. Mischa Schwartz speaking about Armstrong and Pupin at the unveiling ceremony.

Above:  Prof. Goran Duknic speaking about Michael Pupin.

Above: Greg Wyatt, sculptor of the Armstrong Bust speaking about his work.

Above: The unveiling ceremony.

Above: Prof. Radmila Gorup and Prof. Ed Coffman unveiling the Michael Pupin Bust.

Above: Professor Mischa Schwartz unveiling the Armstrong Bust.

Above:  Adam Brecht, relative of Armstrong (left) and Greg Wyatt, sculptor of the Bust (right).

Above:  Dr. Ljubo Vujovic (left), Secretary of Tesla Memorial Society of New York and Ambassador of Bosnia/Herzegovina Milos Prica (right) standing next to the Pupin Bust.

Above:  Greg Wyatt, sculptor of the Armstrong Bust (left) and Prof. Ed Coffman (right) standing next to the Armstrong Bust.

Above: Tony F. Heinz (left) Chair - Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia, Lalla Grimes (middle), Administrative Coordinator, Physics Deparmtent, with her Pupin Medal and Dr. Ljubo Vujovic (right), Secretary General, Tesla Memorial Society of New York.

Above: Nemanja Stefanovic (left), Deputy Consul of Serbia in New York, Dr. Ida Sinkevic (middle) Associate Professor at LaFayette College (PA), and Dr. Ljubo Vujovic (right), Secretary General, Tesla Memorial Society of New York.

Above: Greg Wyatt, sculptor of the Armstrong Bust (left) and Dr. Ljubo Vujovic (right), Secretary General, Tesla Memorial Society of New York.

Above: Michael Idvorsky Pupin (1854 -1935), a distinguished Serbian-American scientist and inventor and long time professor of Columbia University, previous President of New York Academy of Sciences and member of the Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C.  Michael Pupin was a founder of Astronautical Department of National Academy of Sciences, which is a precursor of today's NASA.

Above: This is the famous autobiography of Michael Pupin "From Immigrant to Inventor" which received the Pulitzer Prize in 1924.

Above: Newspaper article from Fall 2002, Columbia Press, with the photo of President Kostunica of Serbia and Dean Zvi Galil with the bust given to Columbia University as a gift from President Kostunica.  The bust is work of renowned Serbian sculptor, Drinka Radovanovic.

"Everyone knows that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.. what Bell really invented was local telephone calls.  It was Michael Pupin who made long distance and international phone calls possible and the gadget that enabled it was the induction coil." - Dean Zvi Galil, Columbia University.

Above: The Michael Pupin Bust created by renowned Serbian Sculptor Drinka Radovanovic.  This bust was a personal gift from Yugoslav President Dr. Vojislav Kostunica to Columbia University, New York.

Above: The Pulitzer Prize Awarded to Michael Pupin, 1924, for his autobiography  "From Immigrant to Inventor"

Above: Pupin Coil at the Smithsonian Museum, Washington D.C.

Above: Pupin Physics Laboratory at Columbia University.  This building was named after Michael Pupin's death in 1935.  29 American Noble Prize Winners did their research in Pupin Physics Laboratory.

Above: Edwin Armstrong - developed and advanced the utility of FM technology.

Above:  Philosophy Hall at Columbia University, New York, where Armstrong discovered FM radio.

Above: United States Stamps, 1983, Tribute to American Inventors, Armstrong, Tesla, Farnsworth and Steinmetz.

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