Edward Ginzton
Edward Leonard Ginzton (born December 27, 1915 in Yekaterinoslav , † August 13, 1998 in Stanford ) was a Russian-American physicist who dealt with particle accelerators and klystrons .
Ginzton, whose father was a US citizen, fled the turmoil of the Russian Revolution via Manchuria to California , where he arrived in 1929. He studied at the University of California, Berkeley (masters degree in electrical engineering in 1937) and Stanford University , where he graduated in engineering in 1938 and received his doctorate in physics in 1940. In Stanford he met William Webster Hansen and the brothers Russell and Sigurd Varian, with whom he was doing research on radar at the Sperry Gyroscope in Long Island during World War II . Ginzton rose there to head of microwave research. From 1946 he was back at Stanford as a professor of applied physics and electrical engineering, where he led the development of the klystron into a high-power microwave source. In addition (and as an application of klystron technology) he and Hansen developed the first linear accelerator for electrons in the USA, which he also used for medical purposes, especially in collaboration with Henry S. Kaplan . From 1949 to 1959 he was director of the microwave laboratory at Stanford University.
From 1956 he headed the study group for Project M (M for Monster), a large linear accelerator, which was then realized in the SLAC . When the project was well on its way, he moved from Stanford to Varian Associates in 1961 (after Sigurd Varian's death) (but remained Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford until 1968), which he helped found in 1948 (and has been on the board of directors ever since) and where he was the CEO after Russell Varian's death from 1959 , which he remained until 1972 (he was also president from 1964 to 1968). After that he was chairman of its board of directors until 1984 and thereafter board of directors in their executive committee until his death. He had advisory functions at Stanford University, its synchrotron radiation laboratory and university hospital, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and was on the boards of several banks.
Ginzton was a passionate skier and sailor, an enthusiastic photographer at a professional level and restored A. Ginzton's model type Ford cars as a hobby. Ginzton held 50 patents.
He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1966), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1971) and the National Academy of Engineering (1965). In 1969 he received the IEEE Medal of Honor . He was on several committees of the National Academy of Sciences (such as for car exhaust, nuclear energy, national security) and from 1974 to 1980 in their council.
literature
- Andrew Sessler, Edmund Wilson Engines of Discovery , World Scientific 2007
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ Ginzton's father was born in Russia and went to the USA during the Klondike gold rush , which enabled him to study medicine in Switzerland. He returned to Russia, where he married a medical student. Both parents were doctors in the Russian Army and went to Harbin with Ginzton in 1927 and from there to the USA.
- ↑ The promotion of particle accelerator developments with money from medicine was already a tradition with Ernest Orlando Lawrence in his cyclotron development in California in the 1930s.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ginzton, Edward |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ginzton, Edward Leonard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian-American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 27, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ekaterinoslav |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 13, 1998 |
| Place of death | Stanford |