At age 16, he began working with his father, a diamond cleaver, and soon discovered “they were throwing all the leftovers in the trash,” he recalled in a biographical video.
He also produced a machine for measuring color in diamond rough pioneered “deep boiling,” to clean out black imperfections and created the first diamond-cutting machine that used lasers.īorn in Haifa, prior to the establishment of the state of Israel, Yehuda was by his own admission a “terrible” student. Yehuda might be best known for the “Yehuda treatment,” which filled in the fractures of a diamond, boosting its clarity grade.
Zvi Yehuda, the self-taught scientist credited with a string of diamond-related innovations, including the clarity-enhancement process that bears his name, died on May 6.
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