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Stocks (from 15) Along the way, Samueli bought the Ana-
heim (Calif.) Ducks in 2005, a professional
Henry Nicholas, who was then a doctoral hockey team, based about 25 miles from
candidate in one of Samueli’s classes at his alma matter from the Disney Co. In
the University of California, Los Angeles. 2015, ha added a second hockey team,
The Norfolk Admirals to his roster.
Invested $5,000
The professor and his student each in- The Samueli philanthropy
vested $5,000 and worked out of Nicholas’ Samueli and his wife are major Southern
nearby Redondo Beach home, later mov- California philanthropists.
ing to permanent quarters in Irvine, Calif.
In 1998, he created a foundation that has
Samueli, who received his undergraduate given multi-million dollar donations to both
degree and doctorate from UCLA is the the UCLA School of Engineering (now the
named inventor of 75 U.S. patents and Samueli School of Engineeering) and the
a Fellow of multiple professional groups, UC-Irvine School of Engineering (now the
such as the IEEE. UC-Irvine Samueli School of Engineering).
The sale of the original Broadcom cata- Without Samueli, but with many of his
pulted Samueli’s net worth to an estimated unique patents, the Broadcom name con-
$6.3 billion as of February 2021, according tinues as one of the largest and most im-
to Forbes. next page
