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Pupin Mihajlo
Rođen u banatskom selu Idvor, Mihajlo Pupin emigrirao je u SAD 1874. godine. Imao je samo pet centi u džepu, a uspeo da posta- ne jedan od najuticajnijih i najuspešnijih Srba na svetu. Bio je jedan od osnivača NASA, a svetsku slavu doneo mu je pronalazak nazvan Pupinovi kalemovi. Naime, 20 godina posle otkrića Aleksandra Be- la patentirao je izum kojim je usavršio telefon i omogućio da danas razgovaramo s kraja na kraj sveta. Bio je to samo jedan od njegovih mnogobrojnih pronalazaka za koje je dobijao nagrade i priznanja. Postao je prvi Srbin kome je dodeljena Pulicerova nagrada. Born in the Banat village of Idvor, Mihajlo Pupin emigrated to the United States in 1874, with just five cents in his pocket, and succeeded in becoming one of the world’s most influential and successful Serbs. He was one of the founders of NASA, and he gained world fame with his invention called “Pupin coils”. Specifically, twenty years after Alexander Graham Bell’s discovery, Pupin patented this invention that perfected the telephone and led to us today being able to talk from one end of the world to the other. This was just one of his many inventions, for which he received awards and recognitions. He also became the first Serb to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
Milanković Milutin
Početkom 20. veka, Milutin Milankovic je bio ambiciozni matemati- čar i naučnik koji je težio da nađe problem koji treba rešiti – problem kosmičkih razmera. I u tome je uspeo! Ovaj inženjer, geofizičar, kli- matolog i astronom osnivač je Katedre za nebesku mehaniku na Beogradskom univerzitetu, a zahvaljujući njemu danas znamo da na klimu utiču faktori iz svemira, pre svega Sunce. Po njemu su na- zvani po jedan krater na Marsu i na Mesecu, a NASA ga je svrstala među 15 naučnika najzaslužnijih za razvoj nauke o Zemlji. Milutin Milanković was an ambitious early 20 th century mathematician and scientist who sought to find a problem that needed solving - a problem of cosmic proportions. And he succeeded! This engineer, geophysicist, climatologist and astronomer was the founder of the Department of Celestial Mechanics at the University of Belgrade, and it is thanks to him that we today know that the climate is influenced by factors from outer space, primarily the Sun. One crater each on Mars and the Moon are named after him, while NASA has ranked him among the 15 scientists worthy of the most praise for the development of Earth science.
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