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It sits within the topics 1905 births, 1993 deaths and 20th-century American physicists.
Its subject is documented across 30 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Born
- Clarence Melvin Zener , ( 1905-12-01 ) December 1, 1905, Indianapolis , Indiana , U.S.
- Died
- July 2, 1993 (1993-07-02) (aged 87), Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , U.S.
- Alma mater
- Harvard University ( PhD )
- Known for
- Zener effect (1934) Work on thermoelastic damping (1937)
- Relatives
- Karl Zener (brother)
- Awards
- Bingham Medal (1957) John Price Wetherill Medal (1959)
- Fields
- Physics
- Thesis
- Quantum Mechanics of the Formation of Certain Types of Diatomic Molecules (1929)
- Doctoral advisor
- Edwin Kemble
- Doctoral students
- John B. Goodenough (1952)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Melvin
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Indianapolis
- Place of death
- Pittsburgh
- Occupation
- physicist
- Educated at
- Harvard University
- Employer
- Washington State University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Bingham Medal
- Doctoral advisor
- Edwin C. Kemble
- Doctoral student
- John B. Goodenough
- Field of work
- électrodynamique des milieux continus
- Image
- Zener Gold Medal.png
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- date of birth
- 1905-00-00
- date of death
- 1993-07-02
- Commons category
- Clarence Zener
- member of
- National Academy of Sciences
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- name in native language
- Clarence Melvin Zener
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Encyclopedic overview
Clarence Melvin Zener (/ˈziːnər/ ZEE-ner; December 1, 1905 – July 2, 1993) was an American physicist who in 1934 was the first to describe the property concerning the breakdown of electrical insulators. These findings were later exploited by Bell Labs in the development of the Zener diode, which was duly named after him.
Zener was also a theoretical physicist with a background in mathematics who conducted research in a wide range of subjects including: superconductivity, metallurgy, ferromagnetism, elasticity, fracture mechanics, diffusion, and geometric programming.
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