biography
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Zener, Clarence (Melvin)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1905–93)
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| biography:
| 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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