Clarence Zener
American physicist
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... Wikipedia
Born: December 1, 1905, Indianapolis, IN
Died: July 2, 1993 (age 87 years), Pittsburgh, PA
Awards: Zener Prize and Von Hippel Award
Academic advisor: Edwin C. Kemble
Doctoral students: John B. Goodenough