Marion E. Hines   4171 - Hines, Marion E.jpg  Marion Hines was
born on November 11 of 1920 in Bellingham, Washington. He earned
his BS and MS from the California Institute of Technology and
then became a weather officer for the US Army Air Force during
World War II. Thereafter he joined Bell Laboratories, where he
worked until 1960. At Bell Labs Mr. Hines developed microwave
electron tubes, storage tubes, parametric amplifiers, tunnel
diode devices and digital communications techniques. In 1957,
Mr. Hines and H.E. Elder demonstrated the first negative
resistance varactor parametric amplifier. He left Bell Labs in
1960 and became Vice President of Microwave Associates, Inc.
where he was also the Chief Scientist of Research and
Development, creating varactor harmonic generators, high power
diode switches and phase shifters, diode oscillators, and
amplifiers, ferrite devices and antennas. While at Microwave
Associates, Hines helped create the first all-solid-state
microwave communications system in the 1960s. In