John Eugene Kunzler | |
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| Born | April 25, 1923 Willard, Utah, United States |
| Died | January 11, 2006 (aged 82) Port Murray, New Jersey, United States |
| Occupation(s) | Physicist and scientist |
John Eugene Kunzler (April 25, 1923 – January 11, 2006) was an American scientist and physicist who conducted pioneering research into the field of superconducting magnets.[1][2]
- ^ Rogers, Madolyn Bowman. "Superconducting magnets", Symmetry magazine, December 1, 2008. Accessed March 30, 2023. "In 1954, G.B. Yntema at the University of Illinois and, in 1959, Stanley Autler at MIT, independently wound superconducting coils with cold-worked niobium and produced magnetic fields close to 10 kilogauss, an order of magnitude higher than before. The gauss race was on. The prize went to metallurgist John E. "Gene" Kunzler, whose group at Bell Labs produced 15 kilogauss using an alloy of molybdenum-rhenium. Kunzler filed for a patent (see image) on September 19, 1960, beating Autler's patent filing by 15 days. Kunzler's patent was issued first, on April 14, 1964."
- ^ Khurana, Anil. "Superconductivity Seen Above the Boiling Point of Nitrogen", Physics Today, April 1987. Accessed March 30, 2023.