Oral history interview with Clarence Melvin Zener, 1981 April 1.

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Oral history interview with Clarence Melvin Zener, 1981 April 1.

Brief account of family background and childhood; education. Stanford University, from 1922; Munich, spring and summer of 1926 (Arnold Sommerfeld and Gregor Wentzel); Harvard University, 1926. Publications and collaborators. War-related work at Watertown Arsenal, 1942-1945. Institute for the Study of Metals at the University of Chicago; micro-mechanism of fractures; ferromagnetism work, starting in 1950. Westinghouse; comments on industrial laboratories. Carneigie-Mellon University, 1968.

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