Michael Pupin arrived at Castle Garden with a few cents and the memories of a shepherd boyhood in Idvor. He tells how he worked as a farmhand and factory hand, won a place at Columbia, studied at Cambridge and in Berlin, and returned to help shape American electrical science and the telephone industry, all to trace what he calls the rise of idealism in American science.
Winner of the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for biography, it is an immigrant memoir and a history of physics told by a participant. Download the free EPUB.