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LEE ALVIN DUBRIDGE
LEE ALVIN DUBRIDGE
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of the National Science Foundation. The Caltech trustees establishec!
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jobs frequently, was a YMCA secretary, football coach, and physical education director at YMCA camps in Iowa, California, Montana, en c! Michigan, as well as in the Army.
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Lee hac! a summer job with the Bell Telephone Lab with future Nobelist Clinton Davisson.
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At Caltech Lee continues! to work on the photoelectric effect with Millikan, who was first to verify Einstein's relation between the photon energy and the maximum energy of the ejectec!
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Epstein, en c! students like Clark Millikan, Charles Richter, William V
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rescue Victor Weisskopf from Hitler's Europe. An abrupt shift to the new subject of nuclear physics was stimulates!
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on a crash basis, incluclec! a clozen from the nuclear physics community, Alex Allen, Ken Bainbricige, Ec!
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out over the worIc! to train users en c!
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by what Art Roberts wrote for a party honoring Rabi's 1944 Nobel Prize. "It ain't the money that makes the nucleus go 'round.
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aIreacly been honoree! by election to the American Philosophical Society ant!
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themselves in the social and public eye. They were important guests at public en c!
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During his presidency the Caltech endowment grew from $17 million to $140 million, thirty new buildings were constructed, the 200-inch Hale telescope was put into service, and the {et Propulsion Laboratory, originally a military production center, was made into a focal point for unmanned space exploration. He was in many ways an ideal college president for the twenty-three years he held that office.4 He was soft-spoken, responsive, and persuasive.
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Women students were acimittecI. Among the most actively supportive faculty I must mention Earnest Watson (his early clean of the faculty)
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A few leacling Caltech trustees joiner! the McCarthy witch hunt, clemancling that Lee fire PauTing in spite of Pauling's academic tenure en c!
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on at Caltech until he won his seconc! Nobel Prize, the Nobel Peace Prize en c!
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the extraorclinarily lively Arrola Bush Cole, willow of a college cIassmate who hac! been president of Cornell College for seven teen years.
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to a retirement community, the Royal Oaks Manor (where we livecI)
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3. I should mention one of his personal associates at RadLab, Charles Newton, a former newspaper and radio writer, who headed special publications and photography there.
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Lee seldom described participation in postwar classified projects, but the Korean War brought us an important one, Project Vista, which Lee headed and which involved much of the senior faculty. Dean Earnest Watson had pressed for Caltech's participation in this study for the military as a public service.
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SELECTED HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS 1934-46 Professor of physics and chairman, Washington University 1938-42 Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Rochester 1940-45 Director of the Radiation Laboratory, MIT 1942 Member, American Philosophical Society 1943 Member, National Academy of Sciences 1945-49 Scientific Advisory Board, U.S. Air Force 1945-51 Naval Research Advisory Committee, U.S.
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Nixon 1969 Lehman Award, New York Academy of Sciences 1970 Robert Andrews Millikan Award, California Institute of Technology 1971-75 Science Advisory Committee, General Motors 1973 Golden Plate Award, American Academy of Achievement 1977 Advisory Council, let Propulsion Laboratory 1982 Vannevar Bush Award, National Science Foundation
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110 1940 1946 1947 1948 1952 1953 1955 1957 1961 1962 1963 1965 1967 1968 1969 1970 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS HONORARY DEGREES Sc.D., Cornell College, Iowa Sc.D., Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn , Wesleyan University, Connecticut University of British Columbia , Washington University, St. Louis LL.D., University of California, Los Angeles Sc.D., Occidental College, Los Angeles LL.D., University of Rochester Sc.D., University of Maryland Sc.D., Columbia University Sc.D., Indiana University LL.D., University of Southern California Sc.D., University of Wisconsin L.H.D., University of Redlands LL.D., Northwestern University L.H.D., University of Judaism, Los Angeles D.C.L., Union College, Schenectady Sc.D., Pennsylvania Military College Sc.D., DePauw University LL.D., Loyola University, Los Angeles Sc.D., Pomona College D.Sc., Rockefeller University Sc.D., Carnegie Institute of Technology LL.D., University of Notre Dame LL.D., Illinois Institute of Technology Sc.D., Tufts University Sc.D., Syracuse University Sc.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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37:392-400. 1932 Further experimental test of Fowler's theory of photoelectric emission.
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Robert Andrews Millikan. In Biographical Memoirs, vol.
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