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Frederick Terman

1900 - 1982

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Frederick Emmons Terman (; June 7, 1900 – December 19, 1982) was an American professor and academic administrator. He was the dean of the school of engineering from 1944 to 1958 and provost from 1955 to 1965 at Stanford University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frederick Terman has received more than 307,219 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Frederick Terman is the 257th most popular engineer (down from 252nd in 2019), the 6,094th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,984th in 2019) and the 26th most popular American Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Frederick Terman ranks 257 out of 323. Before him are Gerhard Fieseler, Essam Sharaf, Robert W. Paul, Boris Chertok, James B. Francis, and Rudy Van Gelder. After him are Louis Vicat, Hans Moravec, Louis Pouzin, Fulgence Bienvenüe, Jack Parsons, and Sergey Chaplygin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Frederick Terman ranks 204. Before him are Ioannis Theodoropoulos, Marta Abba, Ioannis Andreou, Vasily Abaev, Manuel Plaza, and István Fekete. After him are Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Pedro Arispe, Ivan Maslennikov, Mikhail Lavrentyev, Georg Moritz, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Altenburg, and Nicolas Hoydonckx. Among people deceased in 1982, Frederick Terman ranks 171. Before him are Allen Woodring, Raisa Aronova, Beb Bakhuys, Tomás Romero Pereira, Robert Havemann, and Marietta Shaginyan. After him are Alberto Vargas, Fritz Laband, Marie Braun, William Primrose, Percy Williams, and Rafael Méndez.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frederick Terman ranks 6,094 out of 18,182. Before him are Dylan Walsh (1963), Michael Spinks (1956), Kenny Dorham (1924), Beth Hart (1972), Adam Darius (1930), and Shirley Chisholm (1924). After him are Topher Grace (1978), Bob Hite (1943), Ally Sheedy (1962), Charlaine Harris (1951), Amiri Baraka (1934), and Carter Burwell (1954).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Frederick Terman ranks 26. Before him are Emily Warren Roebling (1843), Eugene Polley (1915), Burt Rutan (1943), Aron Ralston (1975), Hendrik Wade Bode (1905), and Rudy Van Gelder (1924). After him are Jack Parsons (1914), Ransom E. Olds (1864), K. Eric Drexler (1955), Donald Wills Douglas Sr. (1892), Alan Shugart (1930), and Frances Spence (1922).

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