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William Hewlett Biography
William Hewlettelectronics entrepreneurBorn: 5/20/1913Birthplace: Ann Arbor, Mich. electronics entrepreneur who, with David Packard, scraped together $538 in 1938 and started an electronics…lanthanum
(Encyclopedia) lanthanumlanthanumlănˈthənəm [key] [Gr.,=to lie hidden], metallic chemical element; symbol La; at. no. 57; at. wt. 138.90547; m.p. about 920℃; b.p. about 3,460℃; sp. gr. 6.19 at 25℃;…germanium
(Encyclopedia) germaniumgermaniumjərmāˈnēəm [key] [from Germany], semimetallic chemical element; symbol Ge; at. no. 32; at. wt. 72.63; m.p. 937.4℃; b.p. 2,830℃; sp. gr. 5.323 at 25℃; valence +2 or +4…Robert N. Noyce
Robert N. Noyce Born: 1927Birthplace: Iowa Semiconductor device-and-lead structure—Noyce, as research director of Fairchild Semiconductor, was responsible for the initial development of silicon mesa…William Hewlett 2001 Deaths
William HewlettAge: 87 electronics entrepreneur who, with David Packard, scraped together $538 in 1938 and started an electronics company in Palo Alto, Calif. The company, Hewlett Packard,…Daniel Case III 2002 Deaths
Daniel Case IIIAge: 44 influential investment banker who, as head of J.P. Morgan HQ (formerly Hambrecht & Quist), financed many of Silicon Valley's leading high-tech companies, including…David Wu Biography
David WuU.S. CongressmanBorn: 1955Birthplace: Taiwan Wu moved to the United States with his family when he was a boy. He earned B.S. from Stanford University in 1977, attended Harvard Medical…2002 National Medal of Technology Recipients
Calvin H. Carter, Cree, Inc., Durham, N.C., for pioneering the development of silicon carbide semiconductor materials. Harun S. Gandhi, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Mich., for researching…J. Franklin Hyde
J. Franklin Hyde Born: 1903 Method for making a transparent article of silica—Hyde was with Corning Glass when he discovered a…Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen is the co-founder and chief technical mind behind the Internet company Netscape, the origin of Netscape Navigator, the Internet browser that dominated the market from 1995 until the…Trending
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