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Clarence (Melvin) Zener

physicist

Physicist, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He taught at several American universities (1930–42), then became a physicist at the Watertown Arsenal (1942–5) in Massachusetts. He moved to Chicago (1945–51), was a physicist and engineer at Westinghouse (1951–65), then joined Texas A&M (1966–8), and Carnegie-Mellon (1968). He made seminal contributions to studies of superconductivity, metallurgy (1935–50), wave function, and the uses of oceanic thermoclines as sources of electrical power (1973).

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