Frederick Terman
American educator and academic administrator (1900–1982) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Frederick Emmons Terman (/ˈtɜːrmən/; June 7, 1900 – December 19, 1982) was an American professor and academic administrator. He was the dean of the school of engineering from 1944 to 1958 and provost from 1955 to 1965 at Stanford University.[1] He is widely credited (together with William Shockley) as being the father of Silicon Valley.[2]
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Born | Frederick Emmons Terman (1900-06-07)June 7, 1900 English, Indiana, U.S. |
Died | December 19, 1982(1982-12-19) (aged 82) Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
Alma mater | Stanford University (B.S.,M.S.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sc.D.) |
Awards | IEEE Medal of Honor (1950) IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal (1956) IEEE Founders Medal (1963) National Medal of Science (1975) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Electrical engineering |
Institutions | Stanford University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Doctoral advisor | Vannevar Bush |
Notable students | Bill Hewlett Bernard M. Oliver David Packard Wen-Yuan Pan Russell and Sigurd Varian Oswald Garrison Villard Jr. Paul W. Klipsch |
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