Edward Leonard Ginzton (December 27, 1915 – August 13, 1998) was a

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Education

Ginzton completed his

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(1936) and

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(1937) in

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at the

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, and his

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in Electrical Engineering from

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in 1941.

Career

As a student at Stanford University, Ginzton worked with

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and brothers

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. In 1941 he became a member of the Varian–Hansen group at the Sperry Gyroscope Company. Ginzton was appointed Assistant Professor in

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at Stanford University in 1945 and remained on the faculty until 1961. In 1949, Ginzton and

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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 th
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. Ginzton was awarded the

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in 1969 for "his outstanding contributions in advancing the technology of high power

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s and their application, especially to linear particle accelerators." Ginzton was a member of the

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and in the

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. Ginzton's biography is available online.

Family

Ginzton was born in Ukraine and lived in

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before moving to

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in 1929. 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).

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External links

National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir

Edward Ginzton Paper
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