Alexander S. Gilmour

Alexander S. (Scott) Gilmour, Jr. (born July 20, 1931 in Deposit , New York ) is an American electrical engineer and author of several standard works on vacuum tubes for microwave technology ( monographs ).

Gilmour Jr. earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1955 and a master's degree from Cornell University in Ithaca in 1959 . Here he received his doctorate in 1961 and was an assistant professor until 1963 . In 1963, in addition to his research activities at the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory (later Calspan Corporation), he became Professor in Residence for two years at this university. In 1965 he took over the management of the electronics section for high frequency at this institute. In 1968 he was appointed manager of the electronics division at Sanders Associates in Buffalo (now Lockheed ). At Buffalo State University, he became a full professor of electrical engineering in 1970. He also worked there as dean for many years and has retired since 1992 .

Alexander S. Gilmour Jr. is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has received several awards from the IEEE for his achievements in high-voltage technology and vacuum tube technology for microwaves. He also worked on behalf of NASA and the US Air Force on the development of highly efficient traveling wave tubes for use in radars and as transmission tubes in satellites .

Publications

• Microwave tubes , Artech House, 1986, ISBN 9780890061817
• Principles of Traveling Wave Tubes , Artech House, 1994, ISBN 9780890067208
• Klystrons, traveling wave tubes, magnetrons, crossed-field amplifiers, and gyrotrons , Artech House, 2011, ISBN 9781608071845
• Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Vacuum Electron devices: inductive output tubes, klystrons, traveling wave tubes, magnetrons, crossed-field amplifiers , Artech House, 2020, ISBN 9781630817282

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Autobiography
2. ^ Laudation for the John R. Pierce Award