Background
Dickinson, Fred Eugene was born on December 29, 1912 in Buena Vista, Minnesota, United States. Son of Ralph Herman and Addie Elizabeth (Speelman) Dickinson.
Dickinson, Fred Eugene was born on December 29, 1912 in Buena Vista, Minnesota, United States. Son of Ralph Herman and Addie Elizabeth (Speelman) Dickinson.
Student Bemidji (Minnesota) State College, 1930-1932. Bachelor of Science in Forestry, University of Minnesota, 1938. Master of Science in Forest Products, Michigan State University, 1941.
Postgraduate University of California at Los Angeles, 1942.
Doctor of Philosophy in Forest Products Economics, Yale, 1951.
Forestry foreman Civilian Conservation Corps, 1938—1939. Teaching assistant Michigan State University, 1939—1941. Director division forestry & lumbering Lassen Junior College, Susanville, California, 1941—1942.
Technologist United States Forest Products Laboratory, Wisconsin, 1942—1945. Civilian packaging specialist War Department, European Theatre of Operations, 1945. Assistant professor, associate professor department lumbering Yale University, 1945, part-time researcher technologist office Naval research, 1946—1951.
Associate professor wood utilization University Michigan, 1952—1955, chairman department wood technical, 1952—1955. Professor forestry University California, Berkeley, 1955—1980, director forest products laboratory, 1955—1980. Director Wildland Research Institute, 1981.
Member advisory committee Prevention Deterioration Center, National Research Council-National Academy of Sciences, 1954—1957, member committee forestry research agricultural board, 1963—1966, ad hoc committee opportunities basic materials industries, 1974—1975. Member official United States delegate Fifth Food and Agriculture Organization Conference Wood Technology, 1963. Member Editorial Board Wood Science & Technology Quar, 1966—1981.
Member of advisory committee Prevention of Deterioration Center, National Research Council-National Academy Sciences, 1954-1957. Member official United States delegation Fifth Food and Agriculture Organization (of the United Nations) Conference Wood Technology, 1963. Fellow International Academy Wood Science (president 1969-1975), Society American Foresters (associate editor Journal Forestry 1960-1966).
Member Forest Products Research Research Society (president 1963-1964), International Union Forest Research Orgns.
(chairman working group on terminology, division 5, 1966-1974, chairman working party on information retrieval for forest products div.6 1974-1976), Society Wood Science and Technology (director visiting scientist program 1960-1962), Sigma Xi.
Married Doris ElidaVance, December 31, 1938. Children: Robert Vance, Thomas Edward, RogerEugene.