Terman, Frederick Emmons (07 June 1900–19 December 1982), electrical engineer and educator, was born in English, Indiana, the son of Lewis M. Terman, a psychologist, and Anna Minton. He grew up on the campus of Stanford University, where his father, an expert on mental testing, taught psychology. Intellectually precocious, Terman tested at the genius level on the Stanford-Binet intelligence scale that his father had devised, and was one of the subjects in his father’s famous study of gifted children. Terman’s parents, convinced that conventional education only stifled the truly gifted, taught him at home until the age of nine. Terman then excelled in school, skipping grades and graduating at the top of his Stanford class in 1920 with a degree in chemical engineering. Switching to electrical engineering, he earned a master’s degree under ...
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Terman, Frederick Emmons (1900-1982), electrical engineer and educator
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Whitehead, John Boswell (18 August 1872–16 November 1954), electrical engineer, researcher, and educator, was born in Norfolk, Virginia, the son of Henry Colgate Whitehead, treasurer of the Norfolk City Railway, and Margaret Walke Taylor. Whitehead’s grandfather and great-grandfather were both mayors of Norfolk, and the family was socially and politically prominent in the southern Virginia area. Whitehead left Norfolk in 1889 at the age of seventeen to pursue his education at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland....
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Wiesner, Jerome Bert (30 May 1915–21 October 1994), electrical engineer, presidential adviser, and university president, was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Joseph Wiesner, a shopkeeper, and Ida Freedman. The boy grew up in Dearborn, Michigan, where he attended public schools and took an interest in electrical equipment, even creating a private telephone network with his friends. He entered the University of Michigan in 1933 and as an undergraduate became associate director of the campus radio broadcasting facility. After receiving a B.S. in both electrical engineering and mathematics in 1937 and an M.S. in electrical engineering in 1938, he continued with the radio service and with studies of acoustics. In 1940 he became chief engineer for the Acoustical and Record Laboratory of the Library of Congress. With folklorist Alan Lomax he recorded ethnic music in the southern and southwestern United States. Also in 1940, he married Laya Wainger; they had four children....
