thermoelectricity
Dear ITS members,200 years ago, on August 16, 1821, Thomas Johann Seebeck reported to the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin about his discovery of thermoelectricity. Although slightly belated:Happy Anniversary, … Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
