Question: The man that invented Zone melting was a political supporter of what?

Context articles: Bushie
Calvin Souther Fuller
Ebilun
Ablation zone
War Times: Reports from the Opposition
Float-zone silicon
William Gardner Pfann
Robert Blackwell, Jr.
Zone melting
John Desmond Bernal

A Bushie, or less commonly, Bushite or Bushy, is a term referring to a political supporter of George H. W. Bush or George W. Bush.
 More specifically, it is used to denote the inner circle of Bush advisors, appointees, and acolytes.
 The label carries much the same meaning as the terms "Reaganite" and "Clintonista," which are used to denote aides and followers of Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, respectively.
Calvin Souther Fuller (May 25, 1902 – October 28, 1994) was a physical chemist at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he worked for 37 years from 1930 to 1967.
 Fuller was part of a team in basic research that found answers to physical challenges.
 He helped develop synthetic rubber during World War II, he was involved in early experiments of zone melting, he is credited with devising the method of transistor production yielding diffusion transistors, he produced some of the first solar cells with high efficiency, and he researched polymers and their applications.
Ebilun (Manchu: ; ; died 1673) was a Manchu noble and warrior of the Niohuru clan, most famous for being one of the Four Regents assisting the young Kangxi Emperor from 1661 to 1667, during the early Qing dynasty (1644–1912).
 A largely passive figure during the regency, Ebilun was disgraced following the ouster of the far more powerful regent Oboi and considered a political supporter of the latter.
 He was stripped of his positions by the emperor but later regained his noble rank.
 Many of his descendants became influential figures in the Qing imperial government.
Ablation zone or "ablation area" refers to the low-altitude area of a glacier or ice sheet below firn with a net loss in ice mass due to melting, sublimation, evaporation, ice calving, aeolian processes like blowing snow, avalanche, and any other ablation.
 The equilibrium line altitude (ELA) or snow line separates the ablation zone from the higher-altitude accumulation zone.
 The ablation zone often contains meltwater features such as supraglacial lakes, englacial streams, and subglacial lakes. Sediments dropped in the ablation zone forming small mounds or hillocks are called kames.
 Kame and kettle hole topography is useful in identifying an ablation zone of a glacier.
 The seasonally melting glacier deposits much sediment at its fringes in the ablation area.
 Ablation constitutes a key part of the glacier mass balance.
War Times: Reports From The Opposition is a 2003 album financed by, produced by, and featuring the voice of Van Jones.
 It had a radical anti-war theme and it was hosted by the controversial cultural icon Mumia Abu-Jamal, of whom Van Jones had been a political supporter.
Float-zone silicon is very pure silicon obtained by vertical zone melting.
 The process was developed at Bell Labs by Henry Theuerer in 1955 as a modification of a method developed by William Gardner Pfann for germanium.
 In the vertical configuration molten silicon has sufficient surface tension to keep the charge from separating.
 Avoidance of the necessity of a containment vessel prevents contamination of the silicon.
William Gardner Pfann (commonly called Bill; October 27, 1917 – October 22, 1982) was an inventor and materials scientist with Bell Labs.
 Pfann is known for his development of zone melting which is essential to the semiconductor industry.
 As stated in an official history of Bell Labs, "Timely invention of zone refining by W.G.Pfann ... was a major contribution that helped bring the impurities in germanium and silicon under control."
Robert Blackwell, Jr. is a Chicago-based American businessman and “a savvy and successful entrepreneur” according to the "Los Angeles Times".
 He is the founder and CEO of EKI-Digital, a technology consulting firm.
 He is the CEO of Killerspin, a manufacturer of table tennis equipment that hosts internationally televised tournaments.
 Blackwell is also a former employer of then-state Senator Barack Obama, as well as a political supporter and personal friend of Obama.
Zone melting (or zone refining or floating zone process or travelling melting zone) is a group of similar methods of purifying crystals, in which a narrow region of a crystal is melted, and this molten zone is moved along the crystal.
 The molten region melts impure solid at its forward edge and leaves a wake of purer material solidified behind it as it moves through the ingot.
 The impurities concentrate in the melt, and are moved to one end of the ingot.
 Zone refining was invented by John Desmond Bernal and further developed by William Gardner Pfann in Bell Labs as a method to prepare high purity materials, mainly semiconductors, for manufacturing transistors. Its early use was on germanium for this purpose, but it can be extended to virtually any solute-solvent system having an appreciable concentration difference between solid and liquid phases at equilibrium.
 This process is also known as the float zone process, particularly in semiconductor materials processing.
John Desmond Bernal FRS ( ; 10 May 1901 – 15 September 1971) was a scientist who pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography in molecular biology.
 He published extensively on the history of science.
 In addition, Bernal was a political supporter of Communism and wrote popular books on science and society.