Aldert Ziel

Education

Van der Ziel obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in 1934 from the University of Groningen.

Career

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 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 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has an award named after Aldert van der Ziel, which is given during the two-yearly International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium (ISDRS) sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Electron Devices Society, for "a distinguished career in education and research".

Achievements

• 1956 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow 1975 Honorary doctorate, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse 1977 National Academy of Engineering 1980 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Education Medal 1981 Honorary doctorate, University of Eindhoven.

Works

• Other Work

  • Books Noise (Prentice-Hall electrical engineering series), Aldert Van der Ziel, Publ. Prentice-Hall (1954) Solid State Physical Electronics 2nd Ed, Aldert Van der Ziel, Publ. Prentice-Hall (1968) Noise in Measurements, Aldert Van Der Ziel, Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc (1976) Nonlinear Electronic Circuits, Aldert Van Der Ziel, Publ.
    
    John Wiley & Sons Inc (1977) Noise in Solid State Devices and Circuits, Aldert Van Der Ziel, Publ. Wiley-Interscience (1986) The Natural Sciences and the Christian Message, Aldert Van der Ziel, Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated (1976) Selected papers Thermal noise in field effect transistors, A. van der Ziel, Proc. IRE, vol. 50, pp. 1808–1812 (1962). Van Der Ziel, A. (1988).
    
    "Unified presentation of 1/f noise in electron devices: Fundamental 1/f noise sources". Proceedings of the IEEE 76 (3): 233–258. doi:10.1109/5.4401. One of the described topics quantum 1/f noise is now controversial.

Membership

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.