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Clarence Zener

1905 - 1993

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Clarence Melvin Zener (December 1, 1905 – July 2, 1993) was the 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Clarence Zener has received more than 159,980 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Clarence Zener is the 473rd most popular physicist (up from 520th in 2019), the 3,490th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,619th in 2019) and the 96th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Clarence Zener ranks 473 out of 851. Before him are Yuval Ne'eman, Marie Alfred Cornu, Dennis W. Sciama, John Kerr, Jacques Babinet, and Pyotr Lebedev. After him are Johann Christian Poggendorff, Anatole Abragam, Max Abraham, Ole Worm, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, and Emil Wiechert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Clarence Zener ranks 137. Before him are Frits Philips, Luigi Zampa, László Benedek, Shojiro Sugimura, Robert Donat, and Ángel Bossio. After him are Mohammad Hidayatullah, Sven Rydell, Louis Rosier, Grigori Kozintsev, Fumiko Enchi, and Zdeněk Burian. Among people deceased in 1993, Clarence Zener ranks 107. Before him are Józef Czapski, Pierre Victor Auger, Guido Masetti, Chishū Ryū, John Tuzo Wilson, and Henry Hazlitt. After him are William L. Shirer, Jan Gies, Elvira Popescu, Sebastiano Baggio, Elmar Klos, and William Berger.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Clarence Zener ranks 3,490 out of 20,380. Before him are Bonnie Hunt (1961), Besse Cooper (1896), Seymour Cassel (1935), Dick Scobee (1939), Del Shannon (1934), and Maryanne Trump Barry (1937). After him are Lead Belly (1888), Michelle Monaghan (1976), Jerry Brudos (1939), Catherine Keener (1959), Walter Koenig (1936), and Stone Cold Steve Austin (1964).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Clarence Zener ranks 96. Before him are Mildred Dresselhaus (1930), Robert W. Wood (1868), Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898), Richard C. Tolman (1881), Lyman Spitzer (1914), and Alan Guth (1947). After him are Maurice Karnaugh (1924), Gordon Gould (1920), Ira Sprague Bowen (1898), Edwin H. Land (1909), Gene Amdahl (1922), and Theodore Hall (1925).

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