Clarence Zener
American physicist
Died when: 87 years 226 days (1051 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
Clarence Melvin Zener (December 1, 1905 – July 2, 1993) 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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