Aldert van der Ziel

Prof. Dr. Aldert van der Ziel, (12 December 1910, Zandeweer - 20 January 1991, Minneapolis), 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, 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. Recipients have included Lester Eastmann, Herbert Kroemer and Michael Shur.

Awards

* 1956 IEEE Fellow
* 1975 Honorary doctorate, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
* 1977 National Academy of Engineering
* 1981 Honorary doctorate, University of Eindhoven

Bibliography

Books

* Noise (Prentice-Hall electrical engineering series), Aldert Van der Ziel, Publ. Prentice-Hall (1954)
* Noise in Measurements, Aldert Van Der Ziel, Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc (1976) ISBN 0-471-89895-3
* Nonlinear Electronic Circuits, Aldert Van Der Ziel, Publ. John Wiley & Sons Inc (1977) ISBN 0-471-02227-6
* Noise in Solid State Devices and Circuits, Aldert Van Der Ziel, Publ. Wiley-Interscience (1986) ISBN 0-471-83234-0
* The Natural Sciences and the Christian Message, Aldert Van der Ziel, Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated (1976) ISBN 0-8371-7941-6

elected papers

* Thermal noise in field effect transistors, A. van der Ziel, Proc. IRE, vol. 50, pp. 1808-1812 (1962).
* Unified Presentation of 1/f Noise in Electronic Devices: Fundamental 1/f Noise Sources, Aldert van der Ziel, Proc. IEEE, vol 76, no 3, 233-258 (1988)

References

* W.G. Shepherd, C.M. Van Vliet and P.H. Handel in Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering, Volume 5 p. 276 (1992) [http://darwin.nap.edu/books/0309046890/html/276.html]

External links

* [http://www.creationism.org/lang/Lang2DecadesCrtn/Lang2DecadesCrtn_7.htm A creationist viewpoint] on van der Ziel's beliefs