Frederick Terman | |
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| Born | Frederick Emmons Terman June 7, 1900 English, Indiana, U.S. |
| Died | December 19, 1982 (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 |
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]
In 1951 he spearheaded the creation of Stanford Industrial Park (now Stanford Research Park), whereby the university leased portions of its land to high-tech firms. Companies such as Varian Associates, Hewlett-Packard, Eastman Kodak, General Electric, and Lockheed Corporation moved into Stanford Industrial Park and made the mid-Peninsula area into a hotbed of innovation which eventually became known as Silicon Valley.