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


 * 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

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