List of Famous people with last name Zener

Clarence Zener

First Name Clarence
Last Name Zener
Born on December 1, 1905
Died on July 15, 1993 (aged 87)

Clarence Melvin Zener was the American physicist who first (1934) described 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 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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