Background
Czanderna, Alvin Warren was born on May 27, 1930 in LaPorte, Indiana, United States. Son of Walter Stanley and Alvina Wilhelmina (Koch) Czanderna.
Czanderna, Alvin Warren was born on May 27, 1930 in LaPorte, Indiana, United States. Son of Walter Stanley and Alvina Wilhelmina (Koch) Czanderna.
Bachelor of Science with distinction in Metallurgical Engineering, Purdue University, 1951; Doctor of Philosophy, Purdue University, 1957.
Junior research metallurgist, United States Air Force, Dayton, Ohio., 1951-1953; senior research physicist, Union Carbide, Parma, Ohio., 1957-1963; research scientist, Union Carbide, South Charleston, West Virginia, 1963-1965; consultant, Union Carbide, South Charleston, 1969, 77; professor physics, Clarkson College, Potsdam, New York, 1965-1978; research fellow, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (former Solar Energy Research Institute), Golden, Colorado, since 1978. Consultant Owens-Illinois, Toledo, 1969, Los Alamos (New Mexico) Science Laboratory, 1968-1976, Lawrence Livermore (California) Laboratory, 1977, Exxon, Baton Rouge, 1981, W.R. Grace, Columbia, Maryland., 1982-1984. Visiting scientist Fritz Haber Institute, West Berlin, Republic of Germany.
Member Lutheran Church Board for Higher Education Services, St. Louis, 1973-1986, vice chairman, 1979-1981, chairman, 1981-1983. Served as staff sergeant United States Air Force, 1951-1953. Fellow American Physical Society, New York Academy of Sciences, American Vacuum Society (chairman education committee 1979-1981, board directors surface science division 1968-1969, vacuum technical division 1980-1981, applied surface scientific division 1987-1992, chairman 1990-1991, trustee 1992-1994)dvgd).
Member American Society for Testing and Materials, American Chemical Society (executive committee 1975-1977), Materials Research Society, Catalysis Society, Adheslon Society, Electromchemical Society, Sigma Xi.
Married Lucile Jean Delp, February 14, 1953. Children: Kathy K. Porak, Karel C. Shirkey, Kani L. Nichols.