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Clarence Zener

1905 - 1993

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Clarence Melvin Zener ( 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Clarence Zener is the 461st most popular physicist (up from 474th in 2019), the 3,732nd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,490th in 2019) and the 100th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Clarence Zener ranks 461 out of 851. Before him are Anatole Abragam, Rudolf Peierls, Erich Hückel, Marie Alfred Cornu, Johanna Budwig, and Hendrik Casimir. After him are Jürgen Ehlers, Carlo Matteucci, Walter Heitler, Berta Karlik, Rashid Sunyaev, and Gabriele Veneziano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Clarence Zener ranks 132. Before him are George Kelly, Ángel Bossio, Dmitri Shepilov, Hilde Holger, Joseph Bonanno, and Tore Keller. After him are Hiroshi Inagaki, Karl Rappan, Preguinho, Abraham Zapruder, Sven Rydell, and Eduard Tubin. Among people deceased in 1993, Clarence Zener ranks 99. Before him are Kenneth E. Boulding, Mario Evaristo, Anna Sten, Felice Borel, Euronymous, and Godfrey Chitalu. After him are Joseph Serchuk, Leo Löwenthal, Józef Czapski, Ugo Locatelli, Wolfgang Lotz, and Shovkat Alakbarova.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Clarence Zener ranks 3,732 out of 20,380. Before him are Wayne Dyer (1940), J. Walter Christie (1865), Brent Spiner (1949), Richard Tucker (1913), Harry Myers (1882), and Jeanne Tripplehorn (1963). After him are Winslow Homer (1836), Stuart Roosa (1933), Josh Holloway (1969), Jay Rockefeller (1937), Marie Smith Jones (1918), and Alice B. Toklas (1877).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Clarence Zener ranks 100. Before him are Frank Oppenheimer (1912), Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898), Richard C. Tolman (1881), Albert W. Hull (1880), Chester Carlson (1906), and Leonard Susskind (1940). After him are Mildred Dresselhaus (1930), Alan Sokal (1955), Robert Brout (1928), Theodore Hall (1925), Robert Serber (1909), and Jeremiah P. Ostriker (1937).

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