Frederick Terman
- Born: June 7, 1900 (English, Indiana)
- Died: December 19, 1982 (Palo Alto, California)
Education
- 1920: AB, Stanford University
- 1922: EE, Stanford University
- 1924: ScD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Electrical Engineering)
Major Positions
- 1925–1937: Stanford University, Instructor to Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
- 1937–1945: Stanford University, Professor of Electrical Engineering
- 1945–1958: Stanford University, Dean, School of Engineering
- 1955–1965: Stanford University, Provost
- 1959–1965: Stanford University, Vice President
- 1965–1982: Stanford University, Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering
Other Positions
- 1937–1945: Stanford University, Executive Head, Department of Electrical Engineering
- 1941–1945: Office of Scientific Research and Development, Member, Divisions 14 (Radar) and 15 (Radio Coordination), National Defense Research Committee
- 1942–1945: Harvard University, Director, Radio Research Laboratory
Selected Part-Time Positions
- 1943–1946: Member, Engineering Division, National Research Council
- 1948–1948: Member, Advisory Committee on Contractual and Administrative Procedures for Research and Development, United States Department of the Army
- 1950–1953: Member, Special Technical Advisory Group, United States Department of Defense
- 1953–1954: Member, Committee on Tests of Battery Additives, National Academy of Sciences
- 1953–1956: Chair, Engineering Section, National Academy of Sciences
- 1954–1957: Member, Advisory Council, Electronics Proving Ground, United States Army
- 1954–1962: Member, Research and Development Advisory Committee, Signal Corps, United States Army
- 1955–1959: Member, Mathematics Physics and Engineering Science Division, National Science Foundation
- 1953–1956: Member, Council, National Academy of Sciences
- 1956–1964: Member, Naval Research Advisory Committee, United States Navy
- 1957–1958: Member, Naval Research Advisory Committee, United States Navy
- 1957–1958: Member, Defense Science Board, United States Department of Defense
- 1955–1959: Chair, Mathematics Physics and Engineering Science Division, National Science Foundation
- 1959–1963: Consultant, President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC)
- 1960–1965: Member, Board of Foreign Scholars, United States Department of State
- 1965–1974: President, Foundation for Science and Engineering, Southern Methodist University
- 1970–1973: Consultant, President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC)
Selected Awards and Honors
Archival Resources
Stanford University Libraries, Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford, California
Online Finding Aid
Published Resources
O. G. Villard, Jr., "Frederick Emmons Terman: 1900-1982", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
Stuart W. Leslie, The Cold War and American Science: The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex at MIT and Stanford (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993)
Rebecca S. Lowen, Creating the Cold War University: The Transformation of Stanford (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997)
C. Stewart Gillmor, Fred Terman at Stanford: Building a Discipline, a University, and Silicon Valley (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004)
Rebecca S. Lowen, "'Exploiting a Wonderful Opportunity': The Patronage of Scientific Research at Stanford University, 1937-1965," Minerva 30 (1992): 391-421
Stewart W. Leslie and Robert H. Kargon, "Selling Silicon Valley: Frederick Terman's Model for Regional Advantage," Business History Review 70 (1996): 435-472
