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Clarence Melvin Zener Collection

Clarence Melvin Zener Collection,

Carnegie Mellon University Archives,

Staff and Faculty Papers

Extent
Two boxes (Boxes 1-2); 2 linear feet

Biographical Notes
Clarence Melvin Zener (b. Indianapolis, Indiana 1905; d. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1993) was a Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) physics professor from 1968 until his death on July 2, 1993.

 

Zener received his A.B. from Stanford University and his Ph.D in physics from Harvard University in 1929.  Zener's research enabled him to travel to Germany on the Sheldon Traveling Fellowship (1929-30).  The National Research Council awarded Dr. Zener a fellowship to further his research at Princeton University from 1930-32.

 

Before Zener came to teach at CMU, he instructed at Washington University (1935-37), City College, New York (1937-40), Washington Sate College (1940-42), University of Chicago (1945-51), and Texas A&M University (1966-68) where he served as the Dean of the College of Science. Clarence Zener also served as the associate director and later the director of Westinghouse Electric Corporation Research Labs over a fourteen year period (1951-65).

 

Zener received several awards which recognized his research in physics.  In 1957 he received the Bingham Award.  In 1959 he received the Wetherill Medallion of the Franklin Institution.  The Albert Souvenur Achievement Award was given to Zener on two different occasions.  He received a Social medal in 1965 and a gold medal in 1974.  In 1982 Zener received the Von Hippel Award.

 

Zener held memberships in the National Academy of Science and the Fellow American Physics Society.

 

Zener was instrumental in the creation and development of scientific studies utilizing his knowledge of physics.  He is credited with the development of the Zener Diode, which was a voltage regulator developed in the 1950's.  Zener is also noted as a pioneer in the concept of ocean thermal energy conversion.  His final research project was based upon the Theoretical Physics and Engineering Power from the Ocean's Thermocline.

 

 

Scope and Content Notes
This collection contains the papers of Clarence Melvin Zener.  The bulk of this collection contains field notebooks, reprints, and abstracts developed for research purposes.  This collection also contains twelve approved United States Patent  applications.  Several of these applications are reprints.  There are several works published by Zener through a collective or independent effort in this collection.  Parts of this collection contain Zener's research information developing the FOAM OTEC SYSTEM.  A great amount of this collection contains physic based equations.  A working knowledge of physics would be helpful in understanding the collection.

 

Provenance
This collection was a gift from the estate of Clarence Zener to the Carnegie Mellon University Archives in 1994.

 

Restrictions
None

 

 

Separations

None

 

 

Processor
The Zener Collection was processed by Lela J. Sewell, November 1994.  Finding Aid reformatted for online presentation by Jennie Benford, 2005.                                                                      

 

Container List: Clarence Melvin Zener Collection

Series I

Background, [1951-65],1975-76,1988,1991

 

FF1     Zener, Clarence--Background--Ocean Thermal Power Plants--1 Item--1975

FF2     Zener, Clarence--Background--Ocean Thermal Power Plants--1 Item—1976

FF3     Zener, Clarence--Background--Ocean Thermal Power Plants--1 Item—1976

FF4     Zener , Clarence--Background--Resume--1 Item--[circa.1988]  

FF5     Zener , Clarence--Background--Westinghouse Research Labs--3 Items--[1951-1965]

FF6     Zener, Clarence--Background--Wind Technology--1 Item—1996

 

                                                                                                         

Series II

Correspondence, 1982,1989-90,1993

 

FF7     Zener,Clarence--Correspondence--6 Items--1982,1989-90,1993

 

 

Series III

Lecture Information,[1988],1990,1992-93

 

FF8     Zener, Clarence--Lecture Information--Graphs,Views--6 Items--n.d.

FF9     Zener,Clarence--Lecture Information--Notes--1 Item--1992     

FF10   Zener, Clarence--Lecture Information--Notes--4 Items--n.d.    

FF11   Zener, Clarence--Lecture Information--Reprints--6 Items--[1988], 1990,1992                                                                    

 

Series IV

United States Patents, 1974-76, 1980,1982

 

FF12 Zener, Clarence--United States Patent--3,805,515, 3,879,758, 3,995,160, 3,995,428- -7 Items--1974-76                                                                                                 

FF13   Zener, Clarence--United States Patent--4,186,311, 4,189,647, 4,308,722, 339,913--5 Items--1980, 1982                                                                                         

 

 

Series V

Foam Otec (Fotec), [1973],1975-76,1977,1979,1981

 

FF14   Zener, Clarence--Foam Otec(Fotec)--Foam cell--1 Item--1981    

FF15   Zener, Clarence--Foam Otec(Fotec)--Fotec Encyclopaedia--1Item--1977                                                                                            

FF16   Zener, Clarence--Foam Otec(Fotec)--Fotec Encyclopaedia--1 Item--1977                                                                                            

FF17   Zener, Clarence--Foam Otec(Fotec)--Fotec Encyclopaedia--1 Item--1977                                                                                            FF18   Zener, Clarence--Foam Otec(Fotec)--Fotec Encyclopaedia--1 Item--1977                                                                                            

FF19   Zener, Clarence--Foam Otec(Fotec)--Fotec System--2 Items--1979

FF20   Zener, Clarence--Foam Otec(Fotec)--Fotec System--1Item--1981

FF21   Zener, Clarence--Foam Otec(Fotec)--Solar Sea Power--2 Items--1975-76                                                                                               

FF22   Zener, Clarence--Foam Otec(Fotec)--Solar Electric System--1 Item--[circa.1973] 

                                                                                

 

Series VI

Ultrasonic,1991-92

 

FF23   Zener, Clarence--Ultrasonic--Cavitation--4 Items--1991             

FF24   Zener, Clarence--Ultrasonic--Sonochemical Synthesis--1 Item--1991

FF25   Zener, Clarence--Ultrasonic--Sonoluminscene--6 Items--1991    

FF26   Zener, Clarence--Ultrasonic--Sonoluminscene--1 Item—1992

     

 

Series VII

Liquid Drop Research 1876,1879,1882,1917,1932,1947,1949,1955,1958,1965-70,1982,1984[1985-89]-90,1993

 

FF27   Zener, Clarence--Liquid Drop Research--Co-author--Liquid Drops,Impulsive Impact,Vortex Sheets--3 Items--[1985-89]    

FF28   Zener, Clarence--Liquid Drop Research--Co-Author--Explosion of Drops Impacting Non-Wetting Rigid Surfaces, Explosive Release of Entrapped Kinetic Energy in Fluids--9 Items--1993                         

FF29   Zener, Clarence--Liquid Drop Research--Notes--6 Items--n.d.    

FF30   Zener, Clarence--Liquid Drop Research--Graphs,Views--23 Items--n.d.                                                                                              FF31   Zener, Clarence-- Liquid Drop Research--Reprints--Hauptaufsatze--1 Item--1932        

FF32   Zener, Clarence-- Liquid Drop Research--Reprints--"On the Forms assumed by Drops of Liquids Falling Vertically on a Horizontal plate.", "A Second Paper on the Forms assumed by Drops of Liquids falling Vertically on a Horizontal Plate.", "On the Capillary Phenomena of Jets.",  "On Impact with a Liquid Surface.", "On the Pressure Developed in a Liquid During the Collapse of a Spherical Cavity.", "The Use of Flat-Ended Projectiles for Determining Dynamic Yield Stress."--11 Items--1876,1879,1882,1917,1947,1949                               

FF33   Zener, Clarence--Liquid Drop Research--Reprints--The instability of liquid surfaces when accelerated in a direction perpendicular to their planes., Water drops Collisions with Solid Surfaces, Splashes as Sources of Sound in Liquids, Crater Depth in Fluid Impacts, Initial Pressure, Initial Flow Velocity and the Time Dependence of Crater Depth in Fluid Impacts--7 Items--1949,1955,1958,1965-67                                                                    

FF34   Zener, Clarence--Liquid Drop Research--Reprints--Splashing of a Water Drop, Splashing of Drops on Shallow Liquids, Subsurface Phenomena and the Splashing of Drops on Shallow Liquids, Splash of a Water Drop at Terminal Velocity, Nucleate Boiling, The Splash of a Liquid Drop, How Tiny Bubbles Can Cause Big Booms, Collapse of an Initially Spherical Vapor Cavity in the Neighborhood of a Solid Boundary, Some Drops Don't Splash--12Items--1967-70,1982                                                                                           

FF35   Zener, Clarence--Liquid Drop Research-- Reprints--Cluster Formation in Aqueous Solutions of Strong Electrolytes, A Study of the Collapse of Arrays Cavities, The Effects of Target Compliance on Liquid Drop Impact, A Coustic Emissions Associated with Drop Impacts, The Behavior of the Gas Film Formed upon Impact with a Liquid Surface, Bubble Entrainment by the Impact of Drops on Liquid Surfaces-- 7 Items--1984,1987-90                                                         

FF36   Zener, Clarence-- Liquid Drop Research--Reprint--On the Pressure Development in Liquid During the Collapse of A Spherical Cavity, Motion of a Liquid in Two Dimensions--3 Items--n.d.             

 

Series VIII

Publications 1967,1969-70,1973, 1976,1982-83,1985-86

 

FF37   Zener, Clarence--Publications--Japanese--2 Items--1985                 

FF38   Zener, Clarence--Publications--author--Statistical Theories of Success, Equation of State for Strong Electrolytes--5 Items--1970, 1986                                       

FF39   Zener, Clarence--Publications--Co-author--Geometric Programming-Theory and Application--1 Item--1967                               

FF40   Zener, Clarence--Publications--Co-author--Geometric Programming-Theory and Application--1 Item--1967                                 

FF41   Zener, Clarence--Publications--Co-author--Geometric Programming,Chemical Equilibrium, and the Anti-Entropy Function,Geometric Programming and the Darwin-Folwer,Van't Hoff-van der Waals Osmotic Pressure and Energy Transformers--5 Items--1969,1983                                                                   

FF42   Zener, Clarence--Publications--Magazine--Mecanique-Materiaux Electricite, Physics Today--2 Item--1973                                              

FF43   Zener, Clarence--Publications--Newsletter--The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists--3 Items--1976                                                        

 

Series IX

Personal Papers, 1982,1991

 

FF44   Zener, Clarence--Personal Papers--Poem--Nothing Venture Nothing Win--Ruby Zener--1 Item--n.d.                                    

FF45   Zener, Clarence--Personal Papers--Thesis--Europe Colony of Japan, Entrainment of Air by Impingement of a Train of Drops onto a  Deep Pool--1 Item--1982,1991

           

 

Series X

Field Notebooks, 1982-1993

 

FF46      Zener, Clarence--Field Notebooks--1982 #1--1 Item--1982        

FF47               Zener, Clarence--Field Notebooks--1982 #2--1 Item--1982        

FF48               Zener, Clarence--Field Notebooks--1983 #1--1 Item--1983        

FF49               Zener, Clarence--Field Notebooks--1983 #2--1 Item--1983        

FF50               Zener, Clarence--Field Notebooks--1984 #1--1 Item--1984 

FF51               Zener, Clarence--Field Notebooks--1984 #2--1 Item--1984  

FF52               Zener, Clarence--Field Notebooks--1984 #3--1 Item--1984   

FF53               Zener, Clarence--Field Notebooks--1985 #1--1 Item--1985 

FF54               Zener, Clarence--Field Notebooks--1985 #2--1 Item--1985 

FF55               Zener, Clarence--Field Notebooks--1986 --1 Item--1986 

FF56               Zener, Clarence--Field Notebooks--1986--1 Item--1986  

FF57               Zener, Clarence--Field Notebooks--1987 #1--1 Item--1987 

FF58               Zener, Clarence--Field Notebooks--1987 #2--1 Item--1987

FF59               Zener, Clarence--Field Notebooks--1988 #1--1 Item--1988

FF60               Zener, Clarence--Field Notebooks--1988 #2--1 Item—1988

FF61               Zener, Clarence--Field Notebooks--1988 #2--1 Item--1988  

FF62               Zener, Clarence--Field Notebooks--1989 #1--1 Item--1989 

FF63               Zener, Clarence--Field Notebooks--1989 #2--1 Item--1989

FF64               Zener, Clarence--Field Notebooks--1990 #1--1 Item--1990 

FF65               Zener, Clarence--Field Notebooks--1990 #2--1 Item--1990  

FF66               Zener, Clarence--Field Notebooks--1990 #2--1 Item--1990

FF67               Zener, Clarence--Field Notebooks--1991 #1--1 Item—1991

FF68               Zener, Clarence--Field Notebooks--1991 #2--1 Item--1991

FF69               Zener, Clarence--Field Notebooks--1991 #3--1 Item--1991

FF70               Zener, Clarence--Field Notebooks--1991 Abstract--1 Item--1991 

FF71               Zener, Clarence--Field Notebooks--1992#1--1 Item—1992

FF72               Zener, Clarence--Field Notebooks--1992#2--1 Item--1992-93

Zener, Clarence--Field Notebooks--1 Item--n.d. 

 

                

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