▲ Fig. 5 Russel Varian, left, and Sigurd
Varian appear in this 1951 photograph with
a high-powered klystron.
crowaves at MIT. The experience of
working with an innovator in the field
of waveguide would serve Saad and the
other co-founders of MDL well, just as
it would serve Sperry and a variety of
other Long Island microwave companies jumping into the microwave
plumbing business. As this segment
would grow, Microwave Journal would
enjoy a strong connection to those developing similar components in this and
other parts of the country.
CALIFORNIA
Also working at Sperry Gyroscope
was future Microwave Journal
Associate Editor—Dr. Seymour B. Cohn. Dr.
Cohn received a BE degree from Yale
University and then joined Harvard
University’s Radio Research Laboratory, eventually receiving his PhD in Engineering Science and Applied Physics.
After Harvard, Dr. Cohn worked at
Sperry alongside the Varian brothers
and W.L Barrow. In 1953, Dr. Cohn
joined the Stanford Research Institute
in Menlo Park, CA, heading the Microwave Group of the Electromagnetics Laboratory (later to be named after
W.W. Hansen). This group was engaged in R&D of microwave antennas,
waveguide, strip-line circuits, microwave solid-state devices and microwave systems. As one of the associate editors in the first issue, Dr. Cohn
would provide Microwave Journal with
his expertise in all these areas and provide an important link to the west coast
technical community. Additionally, fellow Stanford colleagues and famed authors on filter theory—Leo Young and
George Matthaei—would both be regular early contributors. Young first appeared in December 1962 and
Matthaei first appeared in January
1959 and went on to author multiple
editorials and even book reviews for
the magazine. Special reporting on
west coast microwave news would be
picked up by Editorial Specialist Gershon Wheeler, in his column “On the
Peninsula” starting in the mid-60s.
THE EARLY ISSUES
The history of the microwave industry post-1958 is now told through
the following defining issues in the
Microwave Journal’s 50 years of technical articles, business perspectives
and editorial content. This material,
written by the thought leaders of the
industry is particularly insightful when
viewed through the lens of time.
July/August 1958
The Bomarc Missile appears on
the first issue of Microwave Journal
Vol. 1, No. 1 (see Figure 6). W.B.
Bazzy is the first publisher along with
Ted Saad as the first Technical Editor. The associate editors include:
Seymour Cohn, Henry Jasik, Benjamin Lax, Marshall Pease with guest
editorial from Colin Bowness, Tore
Anderson and Dana Atchley. At 48
