Frederick Emmons was an American academician. Frederick Emmons Terman was born in Indiana, on 7 June 1900 to Lewis M. and Anna Terman. Educated at Stanford University, Frederick received the B.A. in chemistry in 1920, and the E.E. in 1922. In 1924 he was given the D.Sc. in electrical engineering by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he studied with Vannevar Bush. It was only the 8th Ph.D. awarded at MIT. In 1932 Terman published the seminal textbook, Radio Engineering. There were four editions of this textbook. It would become the bible for the profession. In 1943 he followed the success of this work with his publication of a handbook for radio engineers. Terman received honorary doctorates from Harvard, University of British Columbia, and Syracuse University. In 1951 he was elected Eminent Member of Eta Kappa Nu and in 1956 the AIEE awarded him its first Education Medal. In 1963 he made a memorable speech before the IEEE annual banquet entitled Impossible Except for Electrical Engineers. He received the National medal Of Science in 1975. He died on December 19, 1982 in Palo Alto, California, United States.