Quote of the day
Our passions are most like to floods and streams;
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
Clarence Zener
Born: December 1, 1905
Died: July 2, 1993 (aged 87)
Bio: 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 him.