| LC control no. | n 2014017754 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Musk, Elon |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1971-06-28 |
| Place of birth | Pretoria (South Africa) |
| Affiliation | PayPal (Firm) SpaceX (Firm) Tesla Motors |
| Found in | Elon Musk, 2014: eCIP t.p. (Elon Musk) SpaceX: making commercial spaceflight a reality, 2013: page 3 (Elon Musk; born in South Africa in 1971) Wikipedia, May 29, 2014 (Elon Musk; a South African-born Canadian-American business magnate, investor and inventor; he was born June 28, 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa; to a Canadian mother and a South African-born British father; he moved to Canada in 1988 at the age of 17, after obtaining Canadian citizenship through his mother; in 1992, after spending two years at Queen's School of Business in Kingston, Ontario, Musk transferred to the University of Pennsylvania where he received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School; he stayed on a year to finish his second bachelor's degree in physics; he moved to California to pursue a Ph. D. in applied physics at Stanford but left the program after two days to pursue his entrepreneurial aspirations in the areas of the Internet, renewable energy and outer space; he became an American citizen in 2002; he is currently the CEO & CTO of SpaceX and CEO & Chief Product Architect of Tesla Motors; he is the founder or co-founder of multiple companies, most notably SpaceX, PayPal, and Tesla Motors) |
| Associated language | eng |
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