Frederick Terman
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Frederick Emmons Terman (born June 7, 1900 in English, Indiana; died December 19, 1982) was a U.S. academic. He is widely credited (together with William Shockley) with being the father of Silicon Valley.
Terman was professor and provost at Stanford University. During his tenure as provost of the school, Terman greatly expanded the science, statistics and engineering departments in order to win more research grants from the Department of Defense. These grants, in addition to the funds that the patented research generated, helped to catapult Stanford into the ranks of the world's first class educational institutions, as well as spurring the growth of Silicon Valley. Stanford's Frederick Emmons Terman Engineering Center is named in his honor.
Dr. Terman was also a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering.[1]
Terman's father Lewis Terman, the man who popularized the IQ test in America, was also a professor at Stanford.
Terman's PhD advisor was Vannevar Bush, who created the NSF, among many other notable activities. One of Terman's PhD students at Stanford was Oswald Garrison Villard, jr..
Terman also wrote Radio Engineering (first edition on 1932, second edition, much improved, on 1938), one of the most important books on electrical and radio engineering, and still a good reference on those subjects.