Fred Terman at Stanford Building a Discipline, a University, and Silicon Valley |
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Author:
| Gillmor, C. Stewart |
ISBN: | 978-0-8047-4914-5 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2004 |
Publisher: | Stanford University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $90.00 |
Book Description:
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"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 readership." --Dudley Herschbach, Harvard University, Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1986
"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 readership." --Dudley Herschbach, Harvard University, Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1986