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Clarence Zener

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Gender Male
Death30 years ago
Date of birth December 1,1905
Zodiac sign Sagittarius
Born Indianapolis
Indiana
United States
Date of died July 2,1993
DiedPittsburgh
Pennsylvania
United States
BooksElasticity and anelasticity of metals
Employers The University of Chicago
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Carnegie Mellon University
Academic advisor John B. Goodenough
Job Physicist
Education The University of Chicago
Harvard University
Stanford University
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Clarence Melvin Zener was the American physicist who first 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.

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