John Vig (born 31 May 1942) is a physicist, executive and inventor. His career has been with the U.S. Army Research Lab and he has also been active with the

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and is known for his inventions in UV-ozone cleaning, chemical polishing of

quartz Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica ( silicon dioxide). The atoms are linked in a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon-oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall chemical ...

surfaces, polyimide bonding of

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and noise in

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Early life and education

Born in Budapest to a Jewish family during World War II, he survived

The Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...

and left Hungary with his immediate family during the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. He settled in

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with his family in 1957 and subsequently received a B.S. degree from City College New York in 1964. In 1969 he received a

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from

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...

. After graduating he began his professional career at the Electronic Components Laboratory at

Fort Monmouth Fort Monmouth is a former installation of the Department of the Army in Monmouth County, New Jersey. The post is surrounded by the communities of Eatontown, Tinton Falls and Oceanport, New Jersey, and is located about from the Atlantic Ocean. T ...

Career

He has served the

in multiple roles, including: * IEEE President and CEO. * President of the Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society (UFFC-S) * Founding President of the Sensors Council * Division Director, Member of the Board of Directors He was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 1988 "for contributions to the technology of quartz crystals for precision frequency control and timing." While in senior management roles in the IEEE, John focused heavily on key issues affecting the organization as demographics, technologies and globalization shifted the environment in which it operated. A key example was the management of diversity as the membership shifted away from being primarily a US-based organization. Another example was helping to kick-start the Internet of Things journal after having founded the Sensors Journal.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vig, John Living people 1942 births Jewish physicists Jewish Hungarian scientists Holocaust survivors Semiconductor physicists People from Colts Neck Township, New Jersey Rutgers University alumni