Winfield Salisbury


Winfield Salisbury was an American scientist and inventor. He is most notable for having invented the Salisbury screen.

Biography

He was born on 23 December 1903 in Iowa, United States to Herbert Spencer Salisbury and Leona Scott Salisbury.
He was married to Elma Salisbury and had three children.
He died on 16 October 1999 in Maricopa, Arizona, United States.

Education

He attended Texas A & M College. He completed his B.A. at the University of Iowa in 1926. He completed his D.Sc. at the University of California in 1950.

Career

In 1952, he became the Mackay Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California Berkeley.