American academic administrator (1901–1994)
Lee Alvin DuBridge (21 September 1901 – 23 January 1994) was an American educator andphysicist , best known as president of theCalifornia Institute of Technology from 1946 to 1969.[ 1]
Lee Alvin DuBridge was born on 21 September 1901, inTerre Haute, Indiana . His father wasFred DuBridge , a football coach atIndiana State Normal School .[ 2] Cornell College in 1922, and then began a teaching assignment at theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison , from which he received an M.A. degree in 1924[ 3] [ 4] California Institute of Technology , as assistant, then associate professor atWashington University in St. Louis (1928–1934), and theUniversity of Rochester .[ 1] [ 5]
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 theRadiation Laboratory atMIT . In 1946, DuBridge began serving as president of the California Institute of Technology through 1969.[ 1]
In 1958, he, along withWilliam A. Fowler ,Max Mason ,Linus Pauling , andBruce H. Sage , was awarded theMedal for Merit .[ 6] [ 7] Science Advisor under PresidentHarry S. Truman from 1952 to 1953 and under PresidentDwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1955, and (after retiring from Caltech) under PresidentRichard Nixon from 1969 to 1970.[ 1]
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), andNational Educational Television (1964–1968).[ 1]
DuBridge died ofpneumonia at a retirement home inDuarte, California , on 23 January 1994.[ 2]
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