Lee Alvin DuBridge

Lee Alvin DuBridge (21 September 1901Template:Thinsp23 January 1994) was an American educator and physicist, best known as president of the California Institute of Technology from 1946 to 1969.<ref name="memoirs">Template:Cite book</ref>

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.<ref name="TH">Template:Cite news</ref> 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<ref name="thesis-ms-1924">Template:Cite thesis</ref> and a Ph.D. in 1926.<ref name="thesis-phd-1926">Template:Cite journal</ref> 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.<ref name="memoirs" /><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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.<ref name=memoirs/>

Civil service

In 1958, he, along with William A. Fowler, Max Mason, Linus Pauling, and Bruce H. Sage, was awarded the Medal for Merit.<ref name="Pauling">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="PI">Template:Cite news</ref> DuBridge served as presidential Science Advisor under President Harry S. Truman from 1952 to 1953 and under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1955, and (after retiring from Caltech) under President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1970.<ref name=memoirs/>

Associations

DuBridge served on boards for: RAND Corporation (1948–1961), National Science Board (1950–1954), Western College Association (president, 1950–1951),<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> 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).<ref name=memoirs />

Personal and death

DuBridge died of pneumonia at a retirement home in Duarte, California, on 23 January 1994.<ref name="TH" />

Awards

• 1942: American Philosophical Society<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1943: National Academy of Sciences<ref name="memoirs" />
• 1946: American Academy of Arts and Sciences<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1947: Research Corporation Award<ref name="memoirs" />
• 1948: United States Medal for Merit<ref name="Pauling"/>
• 1967: Governor's Award, National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1968: Sesquicentennial Award, University of Michigan<ref name=memoirs />
• 1969: Lehman Award, New York Academy of Sciences<ref name=memoirs />
• 1974: Golden Plate Award, Academy of Achievement<ref name=memoirs /><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1982: Vannevar Bush Award, National Science Foundation<ref name=memoirs />
• Minor planet 5678 DuBridge discovered by Eleanor Helin is named in his honor.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

External links

• Oral history interview transcript with Lee DuBridge on 13 December 1968, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
• Oral history interview transcript with Lee DuBridge on 9 June 1972, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
• Oral history interview transcript with Lee DuBridge on 14 February 1986, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
• Oral history interview transcript with Lee DuBridge on 6 March 1987, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
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