Oral History: Theodore Van Duzer (2014)

Theodore Van Duzer was born in Piscataway Township, New Jersey on December 27, 1927. After serving in the US Navy as a radio technician during World War II, he graduated from Rutgers University with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, the University of California, Los Angeles with an M.S. in Engineering, and the University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. Since 1961, he has been a member of the faculty of the Electrical Engineering Department at Berkeley. Van Duzer has co-authored two textbooks, Principles of Superconductive Devices and Circuits and Fields and Waves in Communication Electronics, and has published a wide range of research literature on superconductor electronics in the areas of superconductive devices and circuits. He is an IEEE Life Fellow and the founding editor of the IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity.

In this interview, Van Duzer describes how he came to be interested in superconductivity and circuits as well as his research in superconductive devices and circuits, and his experiences as part of the Applied Superconductivity Conference (ASC), IEEE Council on Superconductivity, and the IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity.

For an earlier oral history on the support Van Duzer received for his work from the National Science Foundation see Theodore Van Duzer Oral History (1991.)