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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p><b>Marvin Chodorow</b> (July 16, 1913 – October 17, 2005) was an American <a href="Physicist" title="Physicist">physicist</a> who pioneered in uses of <a href="Klystron" title="Klystron">Klystron</a> microwave tubes.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-STANFORD-NEWS_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-STANFORD-NEWS-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NAP_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NAP-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-AIP_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AIP-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-STANDFORD-INM_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-STANDFORD-INM-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
Chodorow was a member of the <a href="National_Academy_of_Sciences" title="National Academy of Sciences">National Academy of Sciences</a><sup id="cite_ref-AIP_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AIP-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="National_Academy_of_Engineering" title="National Academy of Engineering">National Academy of Engineering</a> (elected to NAE in 1967 "for microwave tube research and development").<sup id="cite_ref-NAP_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NAP-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2></div>
<p>Chodorow was born in <a href="Buffalo%2C_New_York" title="Buffalo, New York">Buffalo, New York</a>. He received BS in Physics in 1934 from the <a href="University_at_Buffalo" title="University at Buffalo">University at Buffalo</a>, and a PhD in Physics from <a href="Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a> in 1939, under the supervision of <a href="John_C._Slater" title="John C. Slater">John Clarke Slater</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-STANFORD-NEWS_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-STANFORD-NEWS-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>He was a member of faculty of <a href="City_College_of_New_York" title="City College of New York">City College of New York</a> and <a href="Pennsylvania_State_University" title="Pennsylvania State University">Pennsylvania State University</a> before joining <a href="Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a> in 1947.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>He spent the rest of his career at Stanford, becoming a professor in physics and electrical engineering in 1954, and the executive head of the division of applied physics of <a href="Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a> in 1962.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Chodorow was the founding chairman of the department of applied physics of the Stanford University.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<li id="cite_note-NYT-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-NYT_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NYT_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NYT_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NYT_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/31/science/31chodorow.html">New York Times:Marvin Chodorow, 92, Expert in the Use of Microwave Tubes, Dies;By JEREMY PEARCE; October 31, 2005</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-STANFORD-NEWS-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-STANFORD-NEWS_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-STANFORD-NEWS_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/october26/chodorow-102605.html">Stanford University;Stanford Report, October 26, 2005;Klystron pioneer and physicist Marvin Chodorow dead at 92;Marvin Chodorow;BY DAWN LEV</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-NAP-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-NAP_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NAP_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11912&amp;page=53">National Academy of Engineering;Memorial Tributes: Volume 11 (2007);MARVIN CHODOROW;For microwave tube research and development.BY JAMES F. GIBBONS AND CALVIN F. QUATE</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-AIP-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-AIP_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-AIP_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.aip.org/history/acap/biographies/bio.jsp?chodorowm">ACAP:Array of Contemporary American Physicists;Marvin Chodorow</a></span>
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