"I most enjoy helping to build something up, taking an unformulated enterprise and making it into what it could become."
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Engineers from the United StatesPeople from IndianaStanford University alumniNational Medal of Science laureatesStanford University faculty
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as quoted in his Biography, at the Guide to the Frederick Emmons Terman Papers, Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
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Frederick Terman
Frederick Emmons Terman (June 7, 1900 – December 19, 1982) was an American academic. He is widely credited (together with William Shockley) with being the father of Silicon Valley.
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