The father of Silicon Valley — and Hare's grandfather's mentor
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Stanford's dean of engineering and later provost, usually credited as the father of Silicon Valley: he championed Hewlett and Packard, backed Shockley, and built the university-industry relationship the whole region rests on.
During the war he ran Harvard's Radio Research Laboratory, where Milton Dixon Jonathan Hare worked on classified radar and countermeasures. In 1955 Terman recruited him to Stanford's Electronics Research Laboratory.
The record's family thread through him is now explicit (S-094): Milton Dixon Hare served at the Harvard Radio Research Lab in Terman's immediate orbit and followed him to Stanford — which is how the Hare family came to faculty housing in Palo Alto, two decades before the Valley had its name. The chapter.
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Terman's two lines converge in this record. He mentored Hare's grandfather; he also made Hewlett and Packard possible. Which means that when Hare took a manufacturing job at HP's scientific instruments division in Santa Rosa as a teenager, soldering vacuum tubes descended from his grandfather's work, he was inside an institution his grandfather's mentor had built.
Hare's father had likely met both Hewlett and Packard as a teenager, for the same reason: they were regular visitors to the ERL.
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Radar, chaff, and the Stanford lab at the center of Silicon Valley
Open →recruited him toThe epicentre of the nascent Valley
Open →championed its foundersGold wire, three mentors, and a lesson that stuck
Open →the same university, two generations later1990–92 — the faculty, the classmates, and the prize he gave up
Open →the Valley's founders, one phone call awayHP as a teenager, Terman's Valley, an Oregon commune, India, Zen — the parallels the record can actually show; and the borrowed Ferrari, the Z8, and the woman who connects them
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