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==Personal life and education== Grove was born as ''Gróf András István'' to a middle-class [[History of the Jews in Hungary|Jewish]] family in [[Budapest]], [[Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946)|Hungary]], the son of Mária and György Gróf. At the age of four he contracted [[scarlet fever]], which was nearly fatal and caused partial hearing loss.<ref name=Movers/> When he was eight, the [[Nazi Germany|Nazis]] [[Operation Margarethe|occupied Hungary]] and deported nearly 500,000 [[Jews]] to [[Nazi concentration camps|concentration camps]], including [[Auschwitz]]. To avoid being arrested, Grove and his mother took on false identities and were sheltered by friends.<ref name=Movers/> His father, however, was arrested and taken to an Eastern Labor Camp where he was severely tortured<ref name="Encyclopedia1">{{cite web | title=Andrew S. Grove | website=Encyclopedia.com | date=1936-09-02 | url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/social-sciences-and-law/business-leaders/andrew-s-grove | access-date=2023-01-18}}</ref> and forced to do slave labor. The father was reunited with his family only after the war.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/technology/andrew-grove-intel-obituary.html "Andrew S. Grove Dies at 79; Intel Chief Spurred Semiconductor Revolution"]. ''The New York Times''. 21 March 2016.</ref> During the [[Hungarian Revolution of 1956]], when he was 20, he left his home and family and escaped across the border into [[Austria]]. Penniless and barely able to speak English, in 1957 he eventually made his way to the [[United States]]. He later changed his name to the [[Anglicisation|anglicized]] Andrew S. Grove.<ref name=Grove/><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/30/technology/30nocera.html| title=From Intel to Health Care to Beyond| last=Nocera| first=Andrew| newspaper=The New York Times| date=2005-07-30| access-date=2012-04-08}}</ref> Grove summarized his first twenty years of life in Hungary in his memoirs: {{blockquote|By the time I was twenty, I had lived through a [[Government of National Unity (Hungary)|Hungarian Fascist dictatorship]], [[Operation Margarethe|German military occupation]], the Nazis' "[[Final Solution]]," the [[siege of Budapest]] by the Soviet [[Red Army]], a period of chaotic democracy in the years immediately after the war, a variety of repressive Communist regimes, and a [[Hungarian Revolution of 1956|popular uprising]] that was put down at gunpoint... [where] many young people were killed; countless others were interned. Some two hundred thousand Hungarians escaped to the West. I was one of them.<ref name=Grove>Grove, Andrew S. ''Swimming Across: a Memoir'', Hachette Book Group (2001) Prologue.</ref>}} Soon after arriving in the United States, in New York's Catskill Resort,{{where|date=June 2024}}<!-- is it this? Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel --> in 1957, he met his future wife, Eva Kastan, who was an Austrian refugee.<ref>{{cite book |last=Tedlow |first=Richard |author-link=Richard S. Tedlow |date=2007 |title=Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American Business Icon |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=9781591841821}}</ref> They met while he held a job as a busboy and she was a waitress while studying at [[Hunter College High School|Hunter College]]. One year after they met, in June 1958 they married in Queens, New York, in a [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] ceremony. They remained married until Grove died. They had two daughters, Karen Grove and Robie Livingstone, and eight grandchildren.<ref name=Crown>[http://www.crownheights.info/index.php?amount=0&blogid=1&query=Andrew+Grove "Andrew Grove 1 of the 3 co-founders of Intel Corp"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719164814/http://www.crownheights.info/index.php?amount=0&blogid=1&query=Andrew+Grove |date=July 19, 2011 }}, ''CrownHeights.info'', July 18, 2007.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=andrew-grove&pid=178560960 |title=Andrew Grove |work=The New York Times |date=24 March 2016 |access-date=8 July 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.szombat.org/politika/andy-grove-a-kiraly-utcatol-a-kaliforniai-sziliciumvolgyig|title=Andy Grove – A Király utcától a kaliforniai Sziliciumvölgyig|website=Szombat Online|access-date=2020-02-07}}</ref> Even though he arrived in the United States with little money, Grove retained a "passion for learning."<ref name=IW/> He earned a [[bachelor's degree]] in [[chemical engineering]] from the [[City College of New York]] in 1960.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://magyarnarancs.hu/tudomany/a-kicsivel-is-beerte-98789|title=A kicsivel is beérte - Andrew S. Grove (1936–2016)|date=2016-04-17|website=magyarnarancs.hu|language=hu|access-date=2020-02-17|archive-date=February 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200217181422/https://magyarnarancs.hu/tudomany/a-kicsivel-is-beerte-98789|url-status=live}}</ref> ''The New York Times'' stated that "a refugee became a senior in engineering."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.epa.oszk.hu/00300/00342/00145/mgy0202.html|title=Fizikai Szemle 2002/2 - Marx György: Andrew S. Grove: SWIMMING ACROSS|website=www.epa.oszk.hu|access-date=2020-02-08|archive-date=July 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726024956/http://www.epa.oszk.hu/00300/00342/00145/mgy0202.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Grove attended and graduated with his [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in chemical engineering from the [[University of California, Berkeley]] in 1963. In 2000, he was diagnosed with [[Parkinson's disease]]; he became a contributor to several foundations that sponsor research towards a cure.<ref>[https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/0128/070.html "Andy Grove's Last Stand" 2018]</ref> He died at his home on March 21, 2016, at the age of 79; the cause of death was not publicly disclosed.<ref name=NYT>{{cite web| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/technology/andrew-grove-intel-obituary.html| work = The New York Times| title = Andrew S. Grove, Longtime Chief of Intel, Dies at 79| first = Jonathan| last = Kandall| date = 21 March 2016| access-date = 22 March 2016}}</ref>
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