Varian Associates

Varian Associates was an electronics company founded in California in 1948. It was one of the first high-tech companies in Silicon Valley . In 1999 it split into three companies: Varian Inc. (scientific equipment), Varian Medical Systems (Palo Alto) and Varian Semiconductor .

The company was founded in 1948 in San Carlos (California) by Sigurd Fergus Varian , his brother Russell Harrison Varian , Edward Ginzton , William Webster Hansen . Also involved were Fred Salisbury, Myrl Stearns, Dorothy Varian (the wife of Russell Varian), the physicist Leonard Schiff of Stanford University and the lawyer Richard M. Leonard . David Packard of Hewlett-Packard , another early Silicon Valley company , also sat on the board .

In 1953 they moved to Palo Alto as the first company in Stanford Industrial Park. After Sigurd Varian died in 1961, Ginzton took over the position of CEO , and under his leadership the company also stabilized financially. In the early 1990s they had sales of around $ 1 billion.

Varian Associates began making klystrons for radar . Other electromagnetic technology was added, especially in the areas of NMR and EPR - they had, among other things, the fundamental patents of Felix Bloch . This gave them a strong position in the field of scientific equipment. They also produced medical devices (such as X-ray machines) early on.

The company gave its employees a stake in the company early on.

In 1961, former Varian employees founded Spectra-Physics , an early laser company.

Trivia

Clara Jobs, Steve Jobs ' stepmother , was an accountant at Varian.

Web links

Early Varian History

References and comments

↑ Acquired by Agilent Technologies in 2010
^ In Gloucester, Massachusetts. 1971 as Extrion Corp. founded and acquired by Varian in 1975. Acquired by Applied Materials in 2011 .
↑ 1908-1993, he also made a name for himself as a rock climber in Yosemite National Park and was President of the Sierra Club and the Redwoods Preservation Organization

↑ Biography of Sigurd Varian, Chemical Heritage ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Oral History Interview with one of the founders Herbert M. Dwight 1984
^ Walter Isaacson: Steve Jobs. C. Bertelsmann Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-641-07462-3 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

[1] Acquired by Agilent Technologies in 2010

[2] In Gloucester, Massachusetts. 1971 as Extrion Corp. founded and acquired by Varian in 1975. Acquired by Applied Materials in 2011 .

[3] 1908-1993, he also made a name for himself as a rock climber in Yosemite National Park and was President of the Sierra Club and the Redwoods Preservation Organization

[4] Biography of Sigurd Varian, Chemical Heritage ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[5] Oral History Interview with one of the founders Herbert M. Dwight 1984

[books-ZgrDRPlNNfQC-PT24-6] Walter Isaacson: Steve Jobs. C. Bertelsmann Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-641-07462-3 ( limited preview in the Google book search).