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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 325,661 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Frederick Terman is the 301st most popular engineer (down from 255th in 2019), the 7,370th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,081st in 2019) and the 33rd most popular American Engineer.

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  • 17

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  • 2.65

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Frederick Terman ranks 301 out of 389. Before him are K. Eric Drexler, Hesham Qandil, Peter Schreyer, Yaakov Ziv, Mal Evans, and Franciszek Rychnowski. After him are Percy Hobart, Arthur E. Kennelly, Sam Eyde, Guenther Steiner, Isaac Roberts, and Marina Popovich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Frederick Terman ranks 237. Before him are Marta Abba, Pierre Braine, Konrad Granström, John C. Slater, Mikel Koliqi, and Cecil Griffiths. After him are Elizabeth Goudge, Devdas Gandhi, Konrad Hirsch, Ernie Pyle, Christian Matras, and Nikolai Pogodin. Among people deceased in 1982, Frederick Terman ranks 214. Before him are László Sternberg, Konrad Granström, Ed Hamm, Erik Larsson, Alberto Vargas, and Clifford Curzon. After him are Willy Busch, Stanley Holloway, Dieter Borsche, Ricardo Pérez Godoy, Frank Séchehaye, and Kenneth More.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frederick Terman ranks 7,370 out of 20,380. Before him are Pat Crawford Brown (1929), Jane Curtin (1947), Richard Murphy (1931), Ron Clements (1953), Jean Stapleton (1923), and Alexandra Paul (1963). After him are Ned Luke (1958), Harvey Fierstein (1954), Megan Rapinoe (1985), Pat O'Brien (1899), Katherine Sophie Dreier (1877), and Diana Barrymore (1921).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Frederick Terman ranks 33. Before him are Ransom E. Olds (1864), Burt Rutan (1943), Alan Shugart (1930), Frances Spence (1922), Donald Wills Douglas Sr. (1892), and K. Eric Drexler (1955). After him are Hugh Latimer Dryden (1898), Robert H. Dennard (1932), T. Keith Glennan (1905), Jack Parsons (1914), John Houbolt (1919), and Chuck Peddle (1937).

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