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]
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]
^ abRogers, 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."
^"John Kunzler is 1979 Kamerlingh Onnes medalist",Physics Today, July 1979 (Volume 32, Issue 7). Accessed March 30, 2023. "Kunzler earned a BS degree in physical chemistry from the University of Utah in 1945 and a PHD in the same field from the University of California at Berkeley in 1950."
^"Alumni 1950:", p. 37, Catalyst Magazine of the University of California, Berkeley, June 16, 2015. Accessed March 30, 2023. "We have learned from his daughter, Marilyn Barber, that John Eugene Kunzler (Ph.D. Chem) passed away on January 11, 2006, after a brief battle with cancer... He had made his home in Port Murray, NJ."