Felix Zandman was awarded the Edward Longstreth Medal from the Franklin Institute in 1962.
15 Facts About Felix Zandman
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Felix Zandman was born to a Jewish family in Grodno in the Second Polish Republic and lived in Kresy until the Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland.
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Felix Zandman shared this hideaway with three other Jewish refugees.
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Felix Zandman stayed with other survivors in Poland until he was able to emigrate legally to France in the summer of 1946.
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Felix Zandman then worked as an engineer in his specialty field of voltage measurement for a publicly owned company, which manufactured aircraft engines.
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In 1956, Felix Zandman presented his methods and self-developed instruments for the first time in the US.
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Felix Zandman was able to establish important contacts with leading professors and well-known users of its specific field.
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Felix Zandman was eventually employed by the company Tatnall Measuring Systems in Philadelphia as director of basic research.
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Felix Zandman's employer had no interest in the marketing of this invention.
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Felix Zandman's idea was as follows: Assuming that the component is at room temperature and the temperature then increases, the electrical resistance of the metal due to the increase in temperature increases.
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Felix Zandman has developed into a Fortune 1000 company with many subsidiaries and over 22,000 employees worldwide.
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Felix Zandman received the Lazan Award from the Society for Experimental Mechanics in 1970 and subsequently named Fellow and Honorary Member of the society.
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The Society for Experimental Mechanics introduced the F Zandman Award named after him in 1990.
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Felix Zandman told his story to thousands of young students from around the world who had gathered in Auschwitz-Birkenau to observe Holocaust Remembrance Day He was survived by his wife, Ruta Zandman and three children: Dr Gisele Zandman Goddard, Ariele Zandman Klausner, and Marc Zandman.
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Zandman's life was the subject of the 2015 documentary "The Last Victory - the Story of Felix Zandman" which was directed by Haim Hecht and produced by Roy Mandel.