John Eugene Kunzler Explained

John Eugene Kunzler
Birth Date:	April 25, 1923
Birth Place:	Willard, Utah, United States
Death Place:	Port Murray, New Jersey, United States
Occupation:	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]}

Biography

He was born on April 25, 1923, in Willard, Utah, the son of John Jacob Kunzler and Mary Frieda Meier Kunzler. He married Lois McDonald Kunzler on December 29, 1950, and had four daughters (Carol, Marilyn, Bonnie & Kim).^[3]

Kunzler earned degrees in physical chemistry at the undergraduate level in 1945 at the University of Utah and earned his doctorate in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley in 1950.^[4]

A resident of the Port Murray section of Mansfield Township, Warren County, New Jersey, he died on January 11, 2006, at the age of 86.^[5]

Career

He has conducted pioneering research into superconducting Niobium magnets.^[2]

He owned several critical patents in the area of superconducting magnets, including an early patent filed on September 19, 1960.^[1]

In 1982, he became the Director of the Future Device Research Center at the AT&T Bell Laboratories.^[6]

Awards and honors

• 1962 — Fellow of the American Physical Society^[7]
• 1964 — John Price Wetherill Medal (shared with Howard Aiken, John Kenneth Hulm, and Bernd Matthias)^{[8] [9]}
• 1968 - Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics^[10]
• 1979 — American Physical Society International Prize for New Materials (shared with John Kenneth Hulm and Bernd T. Matthias)^[11]

See also

• John Kenneth Hulm
• Niobium

External links

• nae.edu
• symmetrymagazine.org
• w2agz.com

Notes and References

1. 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."
2. Khurana, Anil. "Superconductivity Seen Above the Boiling Point of Nitrogen", Physics Today, April 1987. Accessed March 30, 2023.
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=LZIRAQAAMAAJ&q=John+Eugene+Kunzler+April+25,+1923+Willard,+Utah Who Was Who In America 2006-2007: With World Notables
4. https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.2995628?journalCode=pto "John Kunzler is 1979 Kamerlingh Onnes medalist"
5. https://issuu.com/ucb-catalyst/docs/catalyst-1.1/37 "Alumni 1950:"
6. https://www.nae.edu/29055/Dr-John-E-Kunzler Dr. John E. Kunzler
7. https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=K APS Fellow Archive: Letter K
8. https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb7509860w/_2.pdf "Dr. Bernd T. Matthias to be honored by Franklin Institute"
9. https://www.newspapers.com/article/box-elder-news-john-eugene-kunzler-recei/121986700/ "Ex-Willard Man Earns High Award"
10. https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show_people.php?id=14530 Nomination archive: J E Kunzler
11. https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/mcgroddy.cfm James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials