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-Henry Allen "Al" Zimmerman led the Sampling Group at Tektronix starting in the early 1960s.
+[[File:Al Zimmerman 1961.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Al Zimmerman in 1961]]
-He was born August 5, 1937, in rural Kansas.
+{{Person
+|Names=Henry Allen “Al” Zimmerman
+|Birth date=August 5, 1937
+|Birth place=Sabetha, KS
+|Death date=
+|Death place=
+|Countries=
+|Affiliations=Harvard; University of California; Tektronix
+|Wikidata id=
+}} got his BS in Electrical Engineering from Harvard in 1959 and MS in Electrical Engineering from [[University of California|UC Berkeley]] in 1961.
+He started at Tektronix in July 1961.
+He led the [[Sampling_oscilloscope|Sampling]] Group at Tektronix starting in the early 1960s.
+==Personal==
+Al Zimmerman was married to Emily Jo Berry and they had three kids: Berry in 1958, Bruce in 1960, and JoLynne in 1964. They divorced around 1983.
+He remarried Eileen Harrington in 1986. They divorced around 1997.
+He remarried Lila Lee around 1999. They divorced around 2010.
+==Tektronix==
 As of October 1963, Al Zimmerman's Sampling Group included:
 *Al Zimmerman, Project Manager
-**George Frye, Project Engineer
+**[[George Frye]], Project Engineer
-***Andy Chears
+***[[Andy Chears]], [[Jim Geddes]], [[Leo Heineck]], [[Fred Kawabata]]
-***Jim Geddes
+**[[Ray Underwood]], Project Engineer
-***Leo Heineck
+***[[Gene Cowan]], [[Chuck Donaldson]], [[Chuck Edgar]], [[Stu McNaughton]]
-***Fred Kawabata
-**Ray Underwood, Project Engineer
+==Links==
-***Gene Cowan
+{{Designer|Al Zimmerman}}
-***Chuck Donaldson
+{{Patents|Henry A Zimmerman}}
-***Chuck Edgar
+{{Documents|Author=Al Zimmerman}}
-***Stu McNaughton
+* [[Media:062-1172-00.pdf|Concepts Series: Sampling Oscilloscope Circuits (contributions)]]
-==Patents==
+==Photos==
-* [[Media:US3359429.pdf|US Patent 3359429 "Trigger Generator Circuit Having Synchronized Astable Input Oscillator"]]
+<gallery>
-* [[Media:US3558930.pdf|US Patent 3558930 "Jitter-Free Triggering Method and Apparatus"]]
+Al Zimmerman 1961.jpg|Al Zimmerman in 1961
-* [[Media:US3771056.pdf|US Patent 3771056 "Display Baseline Stabilization Circuit"]]
+Al zimmerman.jpg
+</gallery>
 [[Category:Tektronix people]]