Fred Terman at Stanford Building a Discipline, a University, and Silicon Valley

"Stewart Gillmor has chronicled a grand saga, illuminating how Fred Termanpragmatic engineer, inspiring teacher, visionary academic administratorcatalyzed 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 leadership." Dudley Herschbach,Harvard University, Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1986 "This is more than the biography of an important contributor to the development of Stanford and "Silicon Valley"; it is a well-researched and detailed account of the development and maturation of one of the world's great universities." Gordon Moore,Co-Founder, Intel Corp.Gillmor, C. Stewart is the author of 'Fred Terman at Stanford Building a Discipline, a University, and Silicon Valley', published 2004 under ISBN 9780804749145 and ISBN 0804749140.