Aldert van der Ziel
Aldert van der Ziel,, was a Dutch physicist who studied electronic noise processes in materials such as semiconductors and metals.Biography
Aldert van der Ziel was a pioneering researcher into the phenomenon of flicker noise in physical electronics. He published 15 books and more than 500 scientific papers. He was also a writer on Christianity, particularly the relationship between science and religion. Van der Ziel belonged to a conservative Lutheran church.
Van der Ziel obtained a Ph.D. in 1934 from the University of Groningen. He worked at Philips in Eindhoven until 1947. In 1947 he went to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and moved to the University of Minnesota in 1950 to become professor of electrical engineering. He was also associated, later, with the University of Florida at Gainesville.
The IEEE has an award named after Aldert van der Ziel, which is given during the two-yearly International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium sponsored by the IEEE Electron Devices Society, for "a distinguished career in education and research". Past recipients are Lester Eastmann, Herbert Kroemer, Michael Shur, Marvin H. White, James D. Plummer, Ben Streetman, Mark Lundstrom and Tsu-Jae King Liu.Awards
- 1956 IEEE Fellow
- 1975 Honorary doctorate, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
- 1977 National Academy of Engineering
- 1980 IEEE Education Medal
- 1981 Honorary doctorate, University of Eindhoven
Books
- Noise, Aldert Van der Ziel, Publ. Prentice-Hall
- Solid State Physical Electronics 2nd Ed, Aldert Van der Ziel, Publ. Prentice-Hall
- Noise in Measurements, Aldert Van Der Ziel, Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Nonlinear Electronic Circuits, Aldert Van Der Ziel, Publ. John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Noise in Solid State Devices and Circuits, Aldert Van Der Ziel, Publ. Wiley-Interscience
- The Natural Sciences and the Christian Message, Aldert Van der Ziel, Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Selected papers
- Thermal noise in field effect transistors, A. van der Ziel, Proc. IRE, vol. 50, pp. 1808–1812.
- One of the described topics quantum 1/f noise is now controversial.
