Also, do not forget Dietrich Anders Lobstein. Who invented and built the first microwave prototype in Luxembourg in 1958. Dietrich was born in Prague in 1931 to Franc and Imelda Lobstein. During WWII his father was a big part a the Czech resistance against the Nazis, unfortunately his father was captured and executed by the SS in 1943. After the war, in anticipation of Czechoslovakia coming under the Soviet Union sphere of control, Dietrich and his mother immigrated to Luxembourg. Dietrich Lobstein sold the patent and design of his invention in 1969 to Gary Microwave... the rest as they say is history.