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Frederick Terman | |
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Born | Frederick Emmons Terman June 7, 1900 English, Indiana, U.S. |
Died | December 19, 1982 Palo Alto, California, U.S. | (aged 82)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Stanford University |
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 | Oswald Garrison Villard, Jr. William Hewlett David Packard Russell and Sigurd Varian Bernard M. Oliver |
Frederick Emmons Terman (/ˈtɜːrmən/; June 7, 1900 – December 19, 1982) was an American professor. He and William Shockley helped to create Silicon Valley.[1]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Palo Alto History Project Archived 2010-01-16 at the Wayback Machine