John Zeleny | |
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Born | March 26, 1872 |
Died | 1951 |
Residence | USA |
Nationality | Czech-American |
Fields | Physicist |
Institutions |
University of Minnesota Yale University |
Alma mater |
University of Minnesota (B.S. 1892, Ph.D. 1906) University of Cambridge (B.A. 1899) |
Doctoral advisor | Henry T. Eddy |
Other academic advisors | J. J. Thomson |
Known for | Zeleny electroscope electrospray ion mobility |
John Zeleny (1872–1951) was a Czech-American physicist at the University of Minnesota, who in 1911 invented the Zeleny electroscope. He also studied the effect of an electric field on a liquid meniscus. His work is seen by some as a beginning to emergent technologies like liquid metal ion sources and electrospraying and electrospinning.