[2] As a student at Stanford University, Ginzton worked with William Hansen and brothers Russell and Sigurd Varian.

[3] Ginzton was appointed assistant professor in physics at Stanford University in 1945[2] and remained on the faculty until 1961.

[4] In 1949, Ginzton and Marvin Chodorow developed the 1 BeV 220-foot accelerator at Stanford University.

[4] The nine initial directors of the company were Ginzton, Russell, Sigurd, and Dorothy Varian, H. Myrl Stearns, Stanford University faculty members William Webster Hansen, and Leonard I. Schiff, legal counsel Richard M. Leonard, and patent attorney Paul B.

[7] Ginzton was awarded the IEEE Medal of Honor in 1969 for "his outstanding contributions in advancing the technology of high power klystrons and their application, especially to linear particle accelerators."