Lee Alvin DuBridge
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Lee Alvin DuBridge (1901 – 1994) was a U.S. educator and physicist. He was born September 21 1901 in Terre Haute, Indiana. He graduated from Cornell College in 1922. He became the founding director of the Radiation Laboratory at MIT in 1940, and served until 1945. He served as president of the California Institute of Technology between 1946 and 1969. He then served as the presidential science advisor from 1969 to 1970. He died of pneumonia at a retirement home in Duarte, California on January 23 1994.
It is believed that he was a pioneer of vacuum tube technology: A small marker designates a small house in Downtown Palo Alto as the one-time headquarters of the Federal Telegraph Company, where, early in the twentieth century, DuBridge developed the first vacuum tube.
[edit] External links
- Memorial page for DuBridge at the National Academy of Sciences.
- 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 |
