> Pupin went first to Cambridge and enrolled as a student, hoping to learn the theory from Maxwell himself. He did not know that Maxwe ll had

> Pupin went first to Cambridge and enrolled as a student, hoping to learn the theory from Maxwell himself. He did not know that Maxwe ll had died four years earlier. After learning that Maxwell was dead, he stayed on in Cambridge and was assigned to a college tutor. It wasn't that people spend all those years actually working on this problem. There wasn't an internet nor modern travel to share/disseminate/argue about these ideas.