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I was born in Budapest, to a middle-class family of traders. As a co-founder of Intel, I was a key figure in the rising of the company.
Birth name
Born
1936-09-02, Budapest
Deceased
2016-03-11, California
Education
City College of New York
University of California, Berkeley
Profession
Economy
Scientific Degree
Philosophiæ Doctor (Phd.)
Awards
IEEE Medal of Honor
Time Man of the Year
J. J. Ebers Award
David Packard Medal of Achievement
CEO of the Year, CEO magazine
Andrew Steven Grove, born András István Gróf (Budapest, September 2, 1936 – Los Altos, California, March 21, 2016), was a Hungarian-American businessman, engineer, and pioneer in the semiconductor industry. At the age of 20, he fled Communist-led Hungary and moved to the United States, where he completed his education. He was a co-founder of Intel and a key figure in the company's rise, playing a significant role in transforming it into the world's largest manufacturer of semiconductors.
As a result of his work at Intel, along with his books and professional articles, Grove had a significant influence on the electronics manufacturing industry worldwide. In Silicon Valley, he was known as "the guy who drove the growth phase." In 1997, Time magazine named him Man of the Year, stating that "he is the person who has done the most to drive the amazing growth in power and innovative potential of the microchip."
The Dohány Street synagogue is one of Budapest’s touristic highlights as it is the largest synagogue in Europe and the second largest in the world. The synagogue was built in 1859 in the Moorish style and it can seat 3000 people. Its huge size demonstrates the significance and the high economic and cultural standards of the Budapest Jewry of the age.
The temple was designed by Ludwig Förster (1797-1863), a German architect, professor of the Vienna Academy. The clerk of works was the architect Ignác Wechselmann (1828-1903) who later bequeathed his entire wealth to the Institute of the Blind. After Förster left, Frigyes Feszl, the famous architect of the Budapest Vigadó designed the temple’s inner sanctum. The official consecration of the synagogue took place on 6 September 1859. The interior of the synagogue is 1200 square metres, the towers are 44 metres high. There are 1497 seats for men downstairs and 1472 for women in the galleries, altogether the seating capacity of the flat-ceilinged inner space is nearly 3000 people.
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