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Henry Thompson "Nick" Nicholas III (born 1959), is the co-founder, and former co-chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of Broadcom Corporation, a Fortune 500 company. He is also a philanthropist and leader of the victim's rights movement. Nicholas was ranked number 391 on the list of Forbes' richest Americans in March 2015, with a net worth of $1.7 billion.〔 ==Early life and education== Nicholas was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to Marcella and Henry T. Nicholas Jr., and lived in Glendale, Ohio until he was 4 years old. His father was an attorney with the IRS and his mother was a teacher and later an administrator and theater instructor in the area's Princeton City School District. When his parents divorced, he moved with his mother and sister to Los Angeles, California. His mother remarried, to Robert Leach, a journalist and Hollywood screenwriter, who authored feature film scripts and episodes of such classic television shows as Perry Mason and Sea Hunt. Nicholas attended elementary schools in Malibu and Santa Monica High School.〔(Henry T. Nicholas III - OC Register Wiki )〕 Throughout his schooling, Nicholas suffered from dyslexia.〔(Henry Nicholas, Superhero - Orange County Weekly, July 1, 2004 )〕 He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the UCLA School of Engineering in 1982, after attending the United States Air Force Academy, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Nicholas earned a Master's degree in 1985 and PhD. in Electrical Engineering from UCLA in 1998.〔("Alumnus Dr. Henry T. Nicholas, III was Named for the IEEE Frederik Philips Award for 2014" ), UCLA Engineering News, 2014.〕 His doctoral advisor was Henry Samueli. His doctoral dissertation on "Architectures, Optimization Techniques, and VLSI Implementations for Direct Digital Frequency Synthesizers" became the basis for the development of the chip that launched Broadcom.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Nicholas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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