Frederick Emmons Terman (June 7,1900 –December 19,1982) was an American academic. He is widely credited (together withWilliam Shockley) with being the father ofSilicon Valley.

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• But in the 1950s, many universities saw an advantage in building up all of thesciences andengineering with an eye toward obtaining federal grant money. No single institution did this better thanStanford University. And no one person was more attuned to using federal grants to build a university than its dean of engineering and eventual provost, Frederick Terman. Dr. Terman, trained as an electrical engineer, was an aggressive man with insight and boundless energy. When he began as dean, Stanford University was considered a good private regional school. When he retired as provost, it was arguably the best university for research in the nation.
  • Stuart Rojstaczer (2 September 1999). Gone for Good: Tales of University Life after the Golden Age. Oxford University Press. p. 75.ISBN 978-0-19-535205-4. 

• It is better to have one seven-foot jumper on your team than any number of six-foot jumpers.
  • as quoted in hisBiography, at theGuide to the Frederick Emmons Terman Papers, Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.

• I most enjoy helping to build something up, taking an unformulated enterprise and making it into what it could become.
  • as quoted in hisBiography, at theGuide to the Frederick Emmons Terman Papers, Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.

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