W. W. Hansen

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. Quotes 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 Big science: the growth of large-scale research Stanford University Press 1992 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 Fred Terman at Stanford: building a discipline, a university, and Silicon Valley Stanford University Press 2004 278-279 Quotes about William Webster Hansen 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 Fred Terman at Stanford: building a discipline, a university, and Silicon Valley Stanford University Press 2004 282 External links Category:Physicists from the United States Category:1949 deaths Category:Scientists from California Category:Stanford University alumni