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Sherman Mills Fairchild (April 7, 1896 – March 28, 1971) was an American businessman and investor who founded over 70 companies, including Fairchild Aviation, Fairchild Industries, and Fairchild Camera and Instrument.
- March 28, 1971 (aged 74), New York City, US
- Sherman Mills Fairchild, April 7, 1896, Oneonta, New York, US
- Entrepreneur, investor
The Sherman Fairchild Foundation, founded in 1955, is a charitable foundation of Sherman Fairchild, founder and chairman of the Fairchild Corporations. Sherman Mills Fairchild formed two charitable foundations, the Fairchild Foundation and the Sherman Fairchild Foundation during his lifetime.
Mar 29, 1971 · Sherman Mills Fairchild, a restless inventor with the imag ination and personal wealth to develop major industries from his ideas, died yesterday in Roosevelt Hospital after a long illness.
Oct 20, 2017 · When his father died on the last day of that year, Sherman Fairchild became IBM’s largest individual shareholder, and remained so until his death in 1971. Fairchild was an extraordinary man, creative, unconventional and what you might call multidexterous.
- Anthony Brandt
Jan 12, 2009 · Sherman Fairchild, the photographer who transformed aviation. Conducting aerial surveys in the 1920s took an intrepid soul. The airplane’s open cockpit—and it was always open—was windy, cold ...
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Dec 20, 2016 · With funding from East Coast industrialist Sherman Fairchild of Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp., the founding group developed an improved silicon transistor that found immediate application in aerospace and military defense systems.
Dec 6, 2021 · A Sherman Fairchild Foundation grant to Caltech will fund best-in-class laboratories where scientists can invent tools that use quantum phenomena to change what can be measured, detected, and observed from the far reaches of space to inside our cells.
