Frederick Terman
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Frederick Emmons Terman (born June 7, 1900 in English, Indiana; died December 19, 1982) is widely credited (together with William Shockley) with being the father of Silicon Valley.
Terman was professor and provost at Stanford University. Stanford's Frederick Emmons Terman Engineering Center is named in his honor.
Terman's father Lewis Terman, the man who popularized the IQ test in America, was also a professor at Stanford.
External links
- PBS Biographie (http://www.pbs.org/transistor/album1/addlbios/terman.html)
- Biographie at SMECC.org (http://www.smecc.org/frederick_terman.htm)Template:US-bio-stub