John Zeleny

John Zeleny

Infobox Scientist
name = John Zeleny



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birth_date = 1872-03-26
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death_date = 1951
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residence = USA
nationality = American
field = Physicist
alma_mater = University of Minnesota (B.S. 1892, Ph.D. 1906)
Cambridge University (B.A. 1899)
work_institution = University of Minnesota
Yale University
doctoral_advisor = Henry T. Eddy
J. J. Thomson
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known_for = Zeleny electroscope
electrospray
ion mobility
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John Zeleny (1872-1951) was a Czech-American physicist at the University of Minnesota, who in 1911 invented the Zeleny electroscope.

External links

* [http://www.orau.org/PTP/collection/electroscopes/zeleny.htm Zeleny Electroscope]

Zeleny worked on the action of an electric field on a liquid meniscus.His work is a beginning to emergent technologies like liquid metal ion sources and electrospray.


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