Frederick Emmons Terman (; June 7, 1900 – December 19, 1982) was an American

professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professor ...

and

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. He was the dean of the

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from 1944 to 1958 and provost from 1955 to 1965 at Stanford University. He is widely credited (together with

William Shockley William Bradford Shockley Jr. (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American physicist and inventor. He was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. The three scientists were jointly ...

) as being the father of

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.Palo Alto History Project

Early life

Terman was born to

Lewis Terman Lewis Madison Terman (January 15, 1877 – December 21, 1956) was an American psychologist and author. He was noted as a pioneer in educational psychology in the early 20th century at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. He is best known ...

and Anna Belle Minton Terman on June 7, 1900, in Indiana, U.S. His father,

, a psychologist who studied gifted children and popularized the

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