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Memorial Services at Michael Pupin's Grave

Tesla Memorial Society of New York organized memorial services for Michael Pupin's on his grave in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York in October 1993.   Serbian Priest Father Sinisa Jocic dispersed native soil brought from Pupin's home in Idvor, Yugoslavia over Pupin's grave and conducted a memorial ceremony.  The Tesla Memorial Society of New York, the Serbian community and  representatives of Columbia University (Professor Chien-Shiung Wu, candidate for Nobel Prize in Physics and Professor Samuel Devons, Chairman of the Physics Department at Pupin Physics Laboratory) came together to celebrate memorial services for Michael I. Pupin. 

On October 5, 1993 Serbian Patriarch Pavle visited Serbian Orthodox Cathedral "St. Sava" in Manhattan, New York and blessed the native soil brought from Pupin's home in Idvor, Yugoslavia.  Dr. Ljubo Vujovic was holding the native soil while Patriarch Pavle blessed the soil.  The soil was later dispersed over Pupin's grave.

• Photo on Michael Pupin's Grave in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bornx, New York.

• Photo on Michael Pupin's grave at Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York, Prof. Wu and Prof. Devons are sitted.

• Photo of Pupin's grave at Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York

• Photo taken of Serbian Patriarch Pavle blessing the native soil of Michael Pupin's home brought from Yugoslavia.  Dr. Ljubo Vujovic is holding the soil.  This soil was later dispersed over Pupin's grave.

Professor Chien-Shiung Wu (1912 - 1997), was the candidate for Nobel Prize in Physics and a receiver of a Pupin Medal for her 1954 experiments which disproved the widely accepted principle of "conservation of parity". Professor Wu's 1963 experiments confirmed the existence of weak magnetism in beta decay.  Professor Wu was an admirer of Michael Pupin and was a member of the American Delegation which participated in 1974 celebration of Pupin's birth which was held in Pupin's birth place in Idvor and at the University of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia.  Professor Wu and Professor Devons participated and were valuable advisers in the film: "From Immigrant to Inventor: Michael Pupin Remembered".  This film was created by the Tesla Memorial Society of New York in cooperation with Columbia University, New York.  The film was based on Pupin's autobiography "From Immigrant to Inventor" which received the Pulitzer's Prize as the best autobiography in America at that time.

• Professor Chien-Shiung Wu (1912 - 1997), was the candidate for Nobel Prize in Physics and a receiver of a Pupin Medal for her 1954

"From Immigrant to Inventor : Michael Pupin Remembered": VHS