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Frederick Terman entered Stanford and graduated in 1920 in industrial chemistry. In his graduate work he shifted to electrical engineering, receiving the degree of Engineer at Stanford in 1922.
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274 MEMORIAL TRIBUTES Research Laboratory at Harvard University, a wartime research and development laboratory that specialized in radar countermeasures and had a staff of more than 800 persons. The work at this laboratory had great significance in the detection, analysis, and jamming of German and Japanese radar.
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No other center of advanced technology in the U.S. can match Santa Clara County's performance and the buildup of creative technology in Santa Clara County was almost wholly the handiwork of Frederick Terman, an enthusiastic and inspiring teacher at Stanford.
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He served the National Science Foundation as a member of the Advisory Committee for the Division of Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences during 1955-1959 and as Chairman during 1958-1959. He served as a consultant to the President's Science Advisory Committee and was a Trustee of the Institute for Defense Analysis.
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Finally, in 1976, President Ford conferred upon him the National Medal of Science. As this writer can attest, having succeeded Frederick Terman at Stanford, it can truly be said that he erected a high platform upon which his successors could stand and from which they could see and reach farther than had been possible before.
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