Felix Zandman was a Polish-born American entrepreneur and founder of Vishay Intertechnology – one of the world's largest manufacturers of electronic components. From 1946 to 1949 he studied physics and engineering in France at the University of Nancy. In parallel, he was enrolled in a Grande école of engineering Ensem. He received a Ph.D. at the Sorbonne as a physicist on a subject of photoelasticity. He was awarded the Edward Longstreth Medal from the Franklin Institute in 1962.
- Occupation
- inventor, engineer
- Citizenship
- Second Polish Republic, France, United States, Israel
- Born
- May 7, 1928, May 7, 1927
- Died
- June 4, 2011
