Interview with Terry Cole

Cole, Terry (2001) Interview with Terry Cole. Oral History Project, California Institute of Technology Archives, Pasadena, California.

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Abstract

Interview in three sessions, October 1996, with Terry Cole, senior faculty associate in the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and senior member of the technical staff of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Cole earned his BS in chemistry from the University of Minnesota in 1954 and his PhD from Caltech in 1958 under Don Yost, on magnetic resonance. The following year he moved to the Ford Scientific Research Laboratory, in Dearborn, Michigan, where he rose to head the departments of chemistry and chemical engineering. In 1980 he joined JPL’s Energy & Technology Applications branch; in 1982 he became JPL’s chief technologist, and he was instrumental in establishing JPL’s Microdevices Laboratory and its Center for Space Microelectronic Technology. Interview includes recollections of Lew Allen’s directorship of JPL and a discussion of the origins of the SURF (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship) program.

EPrint Type:	Oral History
Interviewer:	Shirley K. Cohen
Interview Date:	October 11, 22 and 30, 1996
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Chemical engineering, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Subjects:	All Records Subjects > Jet Propulsion Laboratory Subjects > Chemistry
ID Code:	50
Deposited By:	Oral Histories Administrator
Deposited On:	13 May 2003
Record Number:	CaltechOH:OH_Cole_T
Official Persistent URL:	http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechOH:OH_Cole_T
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