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health issues
In October 2003, Jobs was diagnosed with cancer.In mid-2004, he announced to his employees that he had a cancerous tumor in his pancreas.The prognosis for pancreatic cancer is usually very poor;Jobs stated that he had a rare, much less aggressive type, known as islet cell neuroendocrine tumor.his diagnosis, Jobs resisted his doctors' recommendations for medical intervention for nine months,instead relying on a pseudo-medicine diet to try natural healing to thwart the disease.he commited suicide -
death
Jobs died at his Palo Alto, California, home around 3 p.m. on October 5, 2011, because of complications from a relapse of his previously treated islet-cell neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer,resulting in respiratory arrest.He had lost consciousness the day before and died with his wife, children, and sisters at his side. His sister, Mona Simpson, described his death thus: "Steve’s final words, hours earlier, were monosyllables, repeated three times. Before embarking, he’d looked at his sister Patt -
childhood
Paul and Clara adopted Jobs's sister Patricia in 1957and the family moved to Mountain View, California in 1961.It was during this time that Paul built a workbench in his garage for his son in order to "pass along his love of mechanics."Jobs meanwhile admired his father's craftsmanship "because he knew how to build anything. If we needed a cabinet, he would build it. -
background
Adopted at birth in San Francisco, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1960s, Jobs's countercultural lifestyle was a product of his time. As a senior at Homestead High School, in Cupertino, California, his two closest friends were the older engineering student (and Homestead High alumnus) Wozniak and his countercultural girlfriend, the artistically inclined Homestead High junior Chrisann Brennan. Jobs briefly attended Reed College in 1972 before dropping out -
birth
Schieble became pregnant in 1954 when she and Jandali spent the summer with his family in Homs, Syria. Jandali has stated that he "was very much in love with Joanne ... but sadly, her father was a tyrant, and forbade her to marry me, as I was from Syria. And so she told me she wanted to give the baby up for adoption. -
family
Chrisann Brennan notes that after Jobs was forced out of Apple, "he apologized many times over for his behavior" towards her and Lisa. She also states that Jobs "said that he never took responsibility when he should have, and that he was sorry."By this time, Jobs had developed a strong relationship with Lisa and when she was nine, Jobs had her birth certificate changed and her name went from "Lisa Brennan" to "Lisa Brennan-Jobs."In addition, Jobs and Brennan developed a working relationship to c -
honors and awards
2013: Posthumously inducted as a Disney Legend.
2012: Grammy Trustees Award, an award for those who have influenced the music industry in areas unrelated to performance.
2007: Jobs was inducted into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts.
2007: Jobs was named the most powerful person in business by Fortune magazine.
1989: '’Entrepreneur of the Decade'’ by Inc. magazin
1987: Jefferson Award for Public Service
1985: National Medal of Techno
