Lee Alvin DuBridge explained

Lee DuBridge
Office:Director of the Office of Science and Technology
President:Richard Nixon
Term Start:January 20, 1969
Term End:August 31, 1970
Predecessor:Donald Hornig
Successor:Ed David
Office1:Chairman of the President's Science Advisory Committee
Term Start1:1952
Term End1:1956
Predecessor1:Oliver Buckley
Successor1:Isidor Rabi
Office2:2nd President of the California Institute of Technology
Term Start2:1946
Term End2:1969
Predecessor2:Robert Millikan
Successor2:Harold Brown
Birth Date:21 September 1901
Birth Place:Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S.
Death Place:Duarte, California, U.S.
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Field:Physics
Thesis Title:Variations in the photo-electric sensitivity of platinum
Thesis Url:https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/12/3/162.full.pdf
Thesis Year:1926
Doctoral Advisor:Charles Mendenhall

Lee Alvin DuBridge (21 September 190123 January 1994) was an American educator and physicist, best known as president of the California Institute of Technology from 1946–1969.[1]

Background

Lee Alvin DuBridge was born on 21 September 1901, in Terre Haute, Indiana. His father was Fred DuBridge, a football coach at Indiana State Normal School.[2] He graduated from Cornell College in 1922, and then began a teaching assignment at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, from which he received an M.A. degree in 1924[3] and a Ph.D. in 1926.[4] DuBridge continued his academic work at the California Institute of Technology, as assistant, then associate professor at Washington University in St. Louis (1928–1934), and the University of Rochester.[5]

Career

Academia

At Rochester, DuBridge began a long career as an academic administrator, serving as dean of the faculty of arts and sciences. On leave from Rochester between 1940 and 1946, he became the founding director of the Radiation Laboratory at MIT. In 1946, DuBridge began serving as president of the California Institute of Technology through 1969.[1]

Civil service

In 1958, he, along with William A. Fowler, Max Mason, Linus Pauling, and Bruce H. Sage, was awarded the Medal for Merit.[6] [7] DuBridge served as presidential Science Advisor under President Harry S. Truman from 1952–53 and under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953–55, and (after retiring from Caltech) under President Richard Nixon from 1969–70.[1]

Associations

DuBridge served on boards for: RAND Corporation (1948–1961), National Science Board (1950–1954), Western College Association (president, 1950–1951),[8] Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1951–1957), Air Pollution Foundation (1953–1961), Institute for Defense Analysis (1956–1960), Rockefeller Foundation (1956–1976), National Science Board (vice chair, 1958–1964), board of governors for the Los Angeles Town Hall (1959–1963), Edison Foundation (1960–1968), KCET (1962–1968), Huntington Library (1962–1968), and National Educational Television (1964–1968).

Personal and death

DuBridge died of pneumonia at a retirement home in Duarte, California, on 23 January 1994.

Awards

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Greenstein, Jesse L. . Biographical Memoirs, Volume 72 . 1997-08-23 . . 72 . 89–112 . Lee Alvin DuBridge . 10.17226/5859 . 978-0-309-05788-2 . 0077-2933 . 05026629 . 44748015 . 2017-11-07 . en.
  2. News: 2015-09-27 . Historical Perspective: Lee A. DuBridge: America's Senior Statesman of Science . . live . 2018-12-06 . https://archive.today/20220322031230/https://www.tribstar.com/features/history/historical-perspective-lee-a-dubridge-america-s-senior-statesman-of/article_fe2a0256-17e8-5576-8248-c1d866afe625.html . 2022-03-22 . en.
  3. Dubridge . Lee Alvin . Positive rays produced by ultra violet light . 1924 . Ph.D. . . 608883548.
  4. Dubridge . Lee Alvin . March 1926 . Variations in the photo-electric sensitivity of platinum . live . 12 . 3 . 162–168 . 0027-8424 . 00278424 . 16010069 . 43473694 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200318191606/https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/12/3/162.full.pdf . 2020-03-18 . . 10.1073/pnas.12.3.162 . 16576969 . 1084478 . 1926PNAS...12..162D . en . free .
  5. Web site: DuBridge, Lee A. (Lee Alvin), 1901–1994 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20211120223434/https://history.aip.org/phn/11507004.html . 2021-11-20 . 2019-12-29 . . en.
  6. Web site: Presidential Medal for Merit. February 2, 1948. - Published Papers and Official Documents - Linus Pauling and the International Peace Movement . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20180718074029/http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/coll/pauling/peace/papers/1948h.1.html . 2018-07-18 . 2022-02-26 . . en.
  7. News: 1948-10-03 . 5 Caltech Scientists to Get War Medals . 8 . Pasadena Independent . subscription . 2022-02-28 . . en.
  8. Book: Herrick, Francis H. . [{{GBurl|tphYAAAAYAAJ|p=84}} History of the Western College Association: 1924–1974 ]. 1976 . . . 84 . 2749685 . . en.
  9. Web site: APS Member History . 2023-04-19 . search.amphilsoc.org.
  10. Web site: Lee Alvin DuBridge . 2023-04-19 . American Academy of Arts & Sciences . 9 February 2023 . en.
  11. News: 1967-04-20 . Emmys Bestowed by Television Academy . 86 . IV-14 . . subscription . 0458-3035 . . en.
  12. Web site: Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220308053058/https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/ . 2022-03-08 . 2022-03-22 . . en.
  13. Web site: Leon Lederman Biography. Photo: June 24, 1982: Awards Council member and President of Caltech, 1946-1969, Dr. Lee A. DuBridge, presenting the Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award at the Banquet ceremonies held in New Orleans, Louisiana. . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20211103030505/https://achievement.org/achiever/leon-lederman-ph-d/ . 2021-11-03 . 2022-03-23 . . en.
  14. Book: Schmadel, Lutz D. . Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . (5678) DuBridge . 2003 . 481–482 . . 978-3-540-29925-7 . 5th . . 10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_5374 . subscription.

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