Edward Ginzton
Edward Leonard Ginzton (December 27, 1915 – August 13, 1998) (b. 27 December 1915 in Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire (aka Dnipropetrovsk, today Dnipro, Ukraine) – d. 13 August 1998 in Stanford, CA, USA) (→ WikiData) was a Ukrainian-American engineer.
Ginzton completed his B.S. (1936) and M.S. (1937) in Electrical Engineering at UC Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in 1941, where he worked with Russell and Sigurd Varian. He was appointed assistant professor in physics at Stanford University in 1945 and remained on the faculty until 1961.
Ginzton was one of the original board members of Varian Associates, founded in 1948.
In 1948, Ginzton, Bill Hewlett, Jasberg and Noe published a paper on distributed amplifiers in the Proceedings of the IRE, first using the term "distributed amplifier".
By the end of his career, Ginzton held some 50 fundamental patents in electronics and microwave devices, had received the 1969 IEEE Medal of Honor, and had been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (1966) and the National Academy of Engineering (1965).