John Eugene Kunzler

John Eugene Kunzler (April 25, 1923 – January 11, 2006) was an American physicist who conducted pioneering research into the field of superconducting magnets.

Biography 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).

Kunzler earned degrees in physical chemistry at the undergraduate level in 1945 at the University of Utah and earned his doctorate in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley in 1950.

A resident of the Port Murray section of Mansfield Township, Warren County, New Jersey, he died on January 11, 2006, at the age of 82.

Career He has conducted pioneering research into superconducting niobium magnets.

Awards and honors 1962 — Fellow of the American Physical Society 1964 — John Price Wetherill Medal (shared with Howard Aiken, John Kenneth Hulm, and Bernd Matthias) 1968 - Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics 1979 — American Physical Society International Prize for New Materials (shared with John Kenneth Hulm and Bernd T. Matthias)