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Jan Czochralski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjan t͡ʂɔˈxralskʲi]; 23 October 1885 – 22 April 1953) was a Polish chemist who invented the Czochralski method, which is used for growing single crystals and in the production of semiconductor wafers.
The Czochralski method, also Czochralski technique or Czochralski process, is a method of crystal growth used to obtain single crystals of semiconductors (e.g. silicon, germanium and gallium arsenide), metals (e.g. palladium, platinum, silver, gold), salts and synthetic gemstones.
For a layman English-speaker, it is hard to know how to pronounce this term. I think the article should include some guidance on the pronunciation of "Czochralski". --Westwind273 19:15, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
Most true synthetic alexandrite is grown by the Czochralski method, known as “pulling”.Another method is a “floating zone”, developed in 1964 by an Armenian scientist Khachatur Saakovich Bagdasarov, of the Russian (former Soviet) Institute of Crystallography, Moscow.
Jan Czochralski (1885–1953), Polish chemist; Jan Henryk Dąbrowski (1755–1818), Polish general and statesman; Jan Derbyshire, Canadian writer and comedian; Jan Dijkstra (1910–1993), Dutch mayor; Jan Domarski (born 1946), Polish footballer; Jan Drenth (born 1925), Dutch chemist; Jan-Krzysztof Duda (born 1998), Polish chess grandmaster
Linguists identify the "St. Louis Corridor", extending from Chicago down into St. Louis, as a dialectally remarkable area, because young and old speakers alike have a Midland accent, except for a single middle generation born between the 1920s and 1940s, who have an Inland Northern accent diffused into the area from Chicago.
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