And Arthur Nowick held a postdoctoral appointment under Zener
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Clarence Melvin Zener 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.
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Born 1 December 1905 · Died 15 July 1993 · Q247486
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And Arthur Nowick held a postdoctoral appointment under Zener
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Died 1993-07-15.
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Awarded Zener Prize (1985).
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Awarded Von Hippel Award (1982).
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The Von Hippel Award from the Materials Research Society, and in 1985 received the ICIFUAS (International Conference on Internal Friction and Ultrasonic Attenuation in Solids) Prize for the discovery of the Zener effect,
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Won John Price Wetherill Medal (1959).
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Won Bingham Medal (1957).
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Received the Bingham Medal for his work in rheology, in 1959 the John Price Wetherill Medal from the Franklin Institute, in 1965 the Albert Souveur Achievement Award, in 1974 the Gold Medal from American Society for M
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Published “Interaction between the <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <mml:mi>d</mml:mi> </mml:math> -Shells in the Transition Metals. II. Ferromagnetic Compounds of Manganese with Perovskite Structure” in Physical Review — cited 6,492 times.
Published “Effect of Strain Rate Upon Plastic Flow of Steel” in Journal of Applied Physics — cited 2,667 times.
Awarded Fellow of the American Physical Society (1935).
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Was the first to describe the property concerning the breakdown of electrical insulators
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Published “Non-adiabatic crossing of energy levels” in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character — cited 3,894 times.
Studied at Harvard University, Doctor of Philosophy (1929).
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Studied at University of Chicago, Bachelor of Science (1926).
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Born 1905-12-01.
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