“We are all Gang Chen” petition
On behalf of Jeff Snyder: You may have heard about the arrest of Gang Chen of MIT and the push back from academics.The charges are primarily based on a failure … Read More
Category: Thermoelectricity
thermoelectricity
Glen A Slack 1928-2019: a giant and friend
Glen was already a giant when I first met him at GE in 1984. The year I was born he established isotope scattering as the main source of thermal resistance … Read More
Emanuel 'Emil' Andrew Skrabek 1934 – 2019
TO: Space Nuclear CommunityFROM: Gary L. Bennett Below is the obituary of Dr. Emil Skrabek (far left), one of the key technical people in the U.S. space nuclear program. As the … Read More
Lev Bulat 1947-2016 and Grigoriy Arakelov 1945-2016 Have Passed
We have learned of the passing of two colleques and long time contributors to the thermoelectric community Prof. Lev Bulat of St. Petersburg, Russia on June 12, 2016 and Dr. … Read More
Kinichi Uemura 1923-2014
Katsushi Fukuda has informed us of the sudden passing of Kinichi Uemura on April 24, 2014 after a brief illness at the age of 91 in Japan. Prof. Uemura was well … Read More
Richard 'Dick' James Buist 1937-2013
October 31, 2013 Richard ‘Dick’ James Buist Traverse City Record-Eagle SUTTONS BAY — Richard “Dick” James Buist, 76, of Suttons Bay, passed away peacefully surrounded by his loving family on … Read More
Al Schock, Longtime Space Nuclear Power Expert 1926-2007
I don’t suppose most ZTnews readers knew or heard of Al Schock. But I count myself fortunate to have known him for about 23 years. Al was an icon in … Read More
Queen to appoint Prof. D. M. Rowe to OBE
Professor D. M. Rowe of Cardiff, scientist, author, editor, and organizer is well known to the thermoelectric community. Now he has come to the attention of no less than the … Read More
Laird Technologies (Melcor) Acquiers Supercool
Laird Technologies announced on December 6, 2006 the acquisition of Supercool (Coollab AB). the Gothenburg, Sweden based "provider of custom designed thermoelectric based assemblies" with 2006 sales of about US$11M, … Read More
Goldsmid Tribute at ICT2004
To acknowledge the 50th anniversary of the publication of Goldsmid and Douglas’s seminal paper 1953 paper introducing bismuth telluride as a useful thermoelectric material, the organizers of ICT2004 arranged a … Read More