Edward Ginzton

Edward Ginzton
Born(1915-12-27)December 27, 1915
Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
DiedAugust 13, 1998(1998-08-13) (aged 82)
Stanford, California, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley; Stanford University
AwardsIEEE Medal of Honor (1969)
Scientific career
FieldsElectrical engineering
InstitutionsStanford University

Edward Leonard Ginzton (December 27, 1915 – August 13, 1998) was a Ukrainian-American engineer.

Education

Ginzton completed his B.S. (1936) and M.S. (1937) in Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley,[1] and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1941.[2]

Career

As a student at Stanford University, Ginzton worked with William Hansen and brothers Russell and Sigurd Varian. In 1941 he became a member of the Varian–Hansen group at the Sperry Gyroscope Company.[3]

Ginzton was appointed assistant professor in physics at Stanford University in 1945[2] and remained on the faculty until 1961.[4]

In 1949, Ginzton and Marvin Chodorow developed the 1 BeV 220-foot accelerator at Stanford University. After completion of the 1 BeV accelerator, Ginzton became director of the Microwave Laboratory, which was later renamed the Ginzton Laboratory Archived 2012-10-22 at the Wayback Machine.[5]

Ginzton, along with Russell and Sigurd Varian, was one of the original board members of Varian Associates, founded in 1948.[4] The nine initial directors of the company were Ginzton, Russell, Sigurd, and Dorothy Varian, H. Myrl Stearns, Stanford University faculty members William Webster Hansen, and Leonard I. Schiff, legal counsel Richard M. Leonard, and patent attorney Paul B. Hunter.[6]

Ginzton became CEO and chairman of Varian Associates after Russell Varian died of a heart attack and Sigurd Varian died in a plane crash.[7]

Ginzton was awarded the IEEE Medal of Honor in 1969 for "his outstanding contributions in advancing the technology of high power klystrons and their application, especially to linear particle accelerators."

Ginzton was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and in the National Academy of Sciences.

Ginzton's biography is available online.[8]

Family

Plaque in memory of Artemas McCann Gintzon at Hunter's Point, in Fremont Older Preserve. Artemas Ginzton also has a trail named for her in the Byrne Preserve in Los Altos Hills.
Edward and Artemas Ginzton gravestone in Palo Alto

Ginzton was born in Ukraine[9] and lived in China before moving to California in 1929.[10]

On June 16, 1939, Ginzton and Artemas Alma McCann (1913–2000) married. Artemas was the daughter of James Arthur and Alma (Hawes) McCann. The Ginztons had four children: Anne Ginzton Cottrell (1942), Leonard Edward Ginzton (1943), Nancy Hader Ginzton (1946), and David Edward Ginzton (1948).

Notes

  1. ^ "Edward L. Ginzton - Engineering and Technology History Wiki". ethw.org. 11 August 2017. Retrieved 2022-02-08.
  2. ^ a b "Stanford University Electrical Engineering Department". Archived from the original on 2009-08-04. Retrieved 2009-09-12.
  3. ^ "Services Update". ieeeshutpages.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com. Retrieved 2022-02-08.
  4. ^ a b "Edward L. Ginzton, co-founder of Varian Associates, dies at 82 (8/98)". Archived from the original on 2012-10-22. Retrieved 2009-09-21.
  5. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-10-19. Retrieved 2009-09-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ "About Varian, Inc". Archived from the original on October 20, 2010. Retrieved April 29, 2010.
  7. ^ http://www.insidebayarea.com/bay-area-living/ci_12991542?source=rss [dead link‍]
  8. ^ Biographical Memoirs. 2006. doi:10.17226/11807. ISBN 978-0-309-10389-3.
  9. ^ Petersen, Julie K. (2003). Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary: Comprehensive Encyclopedic Reference. CRC Press. p. 405. ISBN 978-0-8493-1349-3. Retrieved March 24, 2011.
  10. ^ "Page Not Found". cardinalalumni.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2022-02-08. {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)

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