Oral history project, 1989-1990, phase one.

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Oral history project, 1989-1990, phase one.

Fifteen people were interviewed for phase one. The transcripts of their interviews are not meant to be a comprehensive written work, but simply the personal recollections of those who had a hand in shaping Varian's first two decades.

.5 linear ft. (15 histories plus index)

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Anderson, Weston A.

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Shoolery, James N., 1925-

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Born in Worland, Wyoming on 25 June 1925. Education: B.S., chemistry, University of California at Berkeley (1948), Ph.D., chemistry, California Institute of Technology (1852). Employment: 1952-1990 Varian Associates, Inc.; 1969-1972, 1990 Independent Consultant. From the description of Oral history interview with James N. Shoolery, 2002 January 18. (Chemical Heritage Foundation). WorldCat record id: 712066304 ...

Zitelli, Louis T.

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Gardner, B. C.

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Ginzton, Edward L. (Edward Leonard), 1915-1998

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Co-founder of Varian Associates and a pioneer in microwave tube technology and linear accelerator development. As a graduate student at Stanford during the 1930's, Ginzton joined Russell and Sigurd Varian and physics professors William W. Hansen and David L. Webster to develop the klystron tube, an integral part of radar and the linear accelerator concept. After working on radar systems during World War II, Ginzton returned to Stanford in 1946 as a professor of applied physics. He joined Hansen ...

Kane, Ralph.

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Cameron, Emmet G.

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Stearns, H. Myrl.

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Nelson, Richard B.

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Packard, Martin

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Staprans, Armand.

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Chodorow, Marvin.

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Chodorow received his B.A. in 1934 at the University of Buffalo, and his Ph.D., 1939, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He taught at Pennsylvania State College and College of the City of New York and worked with the Sperry Gyroscope Company (1943-47), before joining the faculty at Stanford in 1947. He served as Chair of the Department of Applied Physics from 1962-69 and Director of the Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory, 1959-78. He held a Fulbright Fellowship at Cambridge University, 1962...

Moreno, Theodore, 1921-

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Mercer, Sharon.

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Varian Associates.

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In 1989 Varian Associates established an oral history project. The primary objective of the project was to document the management philosophies that shaped the Varian organization and to provide insights into how those philosophies contributed to the company's evolution. The secondary objective was to record how the company's principal product lines evolved and their significance. The first phase of the project focused on the period prior to the formation of Varian Associates throught 1969. The ...

Nunan, Craig S.

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Arnold, James, 1943-

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Epithet: of Aberdeen British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001108.0x0002e2 ...