Oral-History:IEEE Council on Superconductivity Interviews
From ETHW
Applied Superconductivity Oral Histories
The IEEE History Center has undertaken an ongoing series of Oral Histories with prominent individuals in the field of superconductivity, the first group of which were done in August 2014.
- René Flükiger - Flükiger, working mainly at the University of Geneva and at Karlsruhe, studied the metallurgy and structure of a variety of superconductivity, and then applied that knowledge to the production of superconducting wires and tapes.
- Yukikazu Iwasa Born and raised in Japan, Iwasa earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at MIT. He has spent his entire career at the Francis Bitter Magnet Lab there, where his work has focused on the the study, development, and design of superconducting magnets.
- Moises Levy - Levy's research, chiefly at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, focused on the intersection of ultrasonics and superconductivity. He also played a central role in the development and evolution of the IEEE Council on Superconductivity.
- Alexis P. Malozemoff - Malozemoff spent the 19 years of his career at IBM research, where he was best known for the co-discovery of the “giant flux creep” and the irreversibility line in high temperature superconductors (HTS). He spent the remainder of his career at American Superconductor, where he was in charge, among other activities, of AMSC’s rise to a leading role in high temperature superconducting wire and its applications.
- Arnold Silver Silver is best known for his role in the Invention of the Superconducting Quantum Interference Device , better known as the SQUID, while working at the Ford Motors Scientific Lab. He later continued his work at superconducting electronic devices as a scientist and administrator at the Aerospace Corporation and TRW.
- Theodore Van Duzer - Van Duzer spent his long career at the University of California-Berkeley developing superconducting devices and circuits. He was also the founding editor of the IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity.
