# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frederick-terman
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:51:55.801Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/frederick-terman"
name: "Frederick Terman"
slug: "frederick-terman"
description: "Frederick Emmons Terman 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. He is widely credited as being the father of Silicon Valley."
tagline: "American electronic engineer (1900-1982)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frederick_Terman_(1955).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1900-06-07"
deathDate: "1982-12-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump