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

ISBN-13: 9780804749145 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 672 str.

C. Stewart Gillmor

Opis

-Stewart Gillmor has chronicled a grand saga, illuminating how Fred Terman-pragmatic engineer, inspiring teacher, visionary academic administrator-catalyzed 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 readership.- -Dudley Herschbach, Harvard University, Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1986