{"product_id":"fred-terman-at-stanford-9780804749145","title":"Fred Terman at Stanford","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFred Terman was an outstanding American engineer, teacher, entrepreneur and manager. Terman was also deeply devoted to his students, to engineering, and to Stanford University. This biography focuses on the weave of personality and place across time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stewart Gillmor has chronicled a grand saga, illuminating how Fred Terman-pragmatic engineer, inspiring teacher, visionary academic administrator-catalyzed the extraordinary rise of Stanford to the top rank of universities, and its symbiotic creation of far-reaching economic and social capital. This fine book, comprehensive and acutely insightful, documents the transforming power of intellectual leadership.\" -Dudley Herschbach,Harvard University, Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1986 \"This is more than the biography of an important contributor to the development of Stanford and \"Silicon Valley\"; it is a well-researched and detailed account of the development and maturation of one of the world's great universities.\" -Gordon Moore,Co-Founder, Intel Corp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e@fmct:Contents  @toc4:Foreword\tiii  Preface\tiii  @toc2:Introduction\t000  Chapter 1: California Boy, 19001924\t000  Chapter 2: The Stanford Professor, 19251937\t000  Chapter 3: Building Radio and Electronics, 19371941\t000  Chapter 4: The Radio War, 19411946\t000  Chapter 5: Jump Starting Engineering at Stanford,\t\t19421949\t000  Chapter 6: From Building a Discipline to Building\ta University, 19491959\t000  Chapter 7: Raising Steeples at Stanford, 19581965\t000  Chapter 8: \"If I had my life to live over again, I would play the same record,\" 19651982\t000  Epilogue\t000  @toc4:Appendix 1 Terman\"s salary, 19251965  Appendix 2 Patents, 19301947  Appendix 3 Ham Radio Operators at RRL  Appendix 4 Stanford in the rankings, 19561965  Notes\t000  Bibliography\t000  Photographs appear after page xxx        Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Terman, Frederick Emmons, 1900-1982, Radio engineers California Stanford Biography, Stanford University,  Dept,  of Electrical Engineering","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405557211479,"sku":"9780804749145","price":66.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804749145.jpg?v=1730492824","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fred-terman-at-stanford-9780804749145","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}