Word: terman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stanford Professor Lewis Madison Terman thinks he knows pretty well what becomes of bright boys & girls. Twenty-five years ago he had picked 1,400 of California's prize pupils (with I.Q.s of 140) to watch them grow. Periodically he bombarded them with questionnaires, hopefully read Who's Who to look for their names, and during the war kept up a steady correspondence with those overseas. He has just finished a book about them (The Gifted Child Grows Up), and last week sent the 1,400 a 51-page preview...
Said Psychologist Terman: "We see no signs of a prospective statesman in the group; thus far, the highest elective office held by any...is that of Assemblyman. It contains...no mathematician of truly first rank, no university president. It gives no promise of contributing any Aristotles, Newtons, Tolstoys...." Psychologist Terman thinks the 1,400 entitled to another 25 years before making final judgment on them. But he has already come to one conclusion:"In achieving eminence, much depends on chance...
...critics of his gifted group, Dr. Terman wickedly points out: "The earnings of the group may seem low, but if at the age of 34 they were all college professors, their average salary would be below...
...largest single University laboratory was the Radio Research Lab, set up in March 1942 in a wing of the Biology Building. Directed by F. E. Terman, now Dean of the Engineering School at Stanford University, the lab turned out 150 devices, including aluminum foil "window," and "carpet," to confound enemy radar. Its developments were credited with saving 450 American bombers and 4,500 lives...
Doctor of Science: Frederick E. Terman, Director of the Radio Research Laboratory at Harvard; on leave as Executive Head of the Electrical Engineering Department at Stanford University: "A master of the mysterious science of radio communications, a Stanford professor on loan to Harvard; he directs a vast technical establishment created to devise secret Instruments...