Lee Alvin DuBridge (September 21, 1901 – January 23, 1994) was a U.S. educator and physicist. Events 1217 - The Estonian tribal leader Lembitu of Lehola was killed in a battle against Teutonic Knights. Year 1901 ( MCMI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Events 393 - Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine year old son Honorius co-emperor Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A physicist is a Scientist who studies or practices Physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning He was born September 21, 1901 in Terre Haute, Indiana. Events 1217 - The Estonian tribal leader Lembitu of Lehola was killed in a battle against Teutonic Knights. Year 1901 ( MCMI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Terre Haute ( is a city in Vigo County, Indiana near the state's western border with Illinois. He graduated from Cornell College in 1922. This article is about the liberal arts college in Mount Vernon Iowa He became the founding director of the Radiation Laboratory at MIT in 1940, and served until 1945. Ernest Lawrence's laboratory at UC Berkeley now known as Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, was also known as the Radiation Laboratory He also served as president of the California Institute of Technology between 1946 and 1969, and was the first presidential Science Advisor of two administrations: under President Harry S. Truman from 1953 to 1955, and under President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1970. The California Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Caltech) is a private, Coeducational research university located in Pasadena Congress established the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy ( OSTP) in 1976 with a broad mandate to advise the President and others within the Executive Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) He died of pneumonia at a retirement home in Duarte, California on January 23, 1994. Events 393 - Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine year old son Honorius co-emperor Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar)
It is believed that he was a pioneer of vacuum tube technology: A small marker designates a small house in downtown Palo Alto, California as the one-time headquarters of the Federal Telegraph Company, where, early in the twentieth century, DuBridge developed the first vacuum tube. This article is about the electronic device not an evacuated pipe used for experiments in Free-fall. Palo Alto (ˌpæloʊˈæltoʊ from Spanish: palo: "stick" and alto: "high" i This article is about the electronic device not an evacuated pipe used for experiments in Free-fall.
External links
- Memorial page for DuBridge at the National Academy of Sciences. The National Academy of Sciences (NAS is a corporation in the United States whose members serve Pro bono as "advisers to the nation on science
- Caltech oral history interview, Part I
- Caltech oral history interview, Part II
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| Preceded by Robert Andrews Millikan, as Chairman of the Executive Council of the California Institute of Technology |
President of the California Institute of Technology 1946–1969 |
Succeeded by Harold Brown |
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