The story is quite simple, life is never fair and therefore some use more elbow then others , Happy weekend, 73 de Ulrich N1UL In a message dated 8/6/2016 1:00:38 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, richard@karlquist.com writes: On 8/5/2016 12:47 PM, Tom Van Baak wrote: > Here's a new article, on IEEE's site (and this one's free): > > "Oscillator Phase Noise: A 50-Year Review", by David B. Leeson > http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7464875 > It has always irked me that no credit was given to Edson's pioneering 1953 book "Vacuum tube oscillators" in Leeson's papers and I see that the omission continues in the latest paper. You can see from the following reference that Edson was the true pioneer in this field: http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/classics1983/A1983QV00800001.pdf He actually had the basic idea in 1934. He is the proverbial "unsung hero". Rick _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.