Edward Ginzton
| Edward Ginzton | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 27, 1915 Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) |
| Died | August 13, 1998 (aged 82) Stanford, California, U.S. |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Electrical engineering |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley; Stanford University |
| Notable awards | IEEE Medal of Honor (1969) |
Dr Edward Leonard Ginzton (December 27, 1915 – August 13, 1998) was a Ukrainian-American engineer.
Ginzton completed his B.S. (1936) and M.S. (1937) in Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1941.
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.
Ginzton was appointed Assistant Professor in Physics at Stanford University in 1945 and remained on the faculty until 1961.
In 1949, Ginzton and Marvin Chodorow developed the 1 BeV 220 accelerator in the at Stanford University. After completion of the 1 BeV 220 accelerator, Ginzton became director of the Microwave Laboratory which was later renamed the Ginzton Laboratory.
Ginzton, along with Russell and Sigurd Varian, was one of the original board members of Varian Associates, founded in 1948. 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.
Ginzton became CEO and chairman of Varian Associates after Russell Varian died of a heart attack and Sigurd Varian died in a plane crash.
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