W. W. Hansen
American physicist (1909–1949)
William Webster Hansen (May 27, 1909 – May 23, 1949) was a U.S. physicist who was one of the founders of the technology of microwave electronics.
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Quotes
edit- What can we sell them? Not our soul.
- Hansen writing to himself in his scrapbook while pondering about industrial sponsorship in university research work, as quoted by Peter Louis Galison and Bruce William Hevly (1992). Big science: the growth of large-scale research. Stanford University Press. p. 57.
- Good physics can be done if we have a good shop. … Given a good shop and good measurement equipment a sound physicist can do wonderful work.
- as quoted by C. Stewart Gillmor (2004). Fred Terman at Stanford: building a discipline, a university, and Silicon Valley. Stanford University Press. p. 278-279.
Quotes about William Webster Hansen
edit- One of the most fertile and original men I have ever known. … He was a rare combination, almost unique, of a theoretical physicist and a thoroughly practical engineer.
- Frederick Terman describing William Hansen, as quoted by C. Stewart Gillmor (2004). Fred Terman at Stanford: building a discipline, a university, and Silicon Valley. Stanford University Press. p. 282.
