Background
DuBridge was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, and graduated from Cornell College in 1922, and then began a teaching assignment at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, from which he received an Master of Arts
physicist university professor
DuBridge was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, and graduated from Cornell College in 1922, and then began a teaching assignment at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, from which he received an Master of Arts
AB, Cornell College, Iowa, 1922. Doctor of Science, Cornell College, Iowa, 1940. Master of Arts, University Wisconsin, 1924.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Wisconsin, 1926. Doctor of Science, Wesleyan University, 1946. Doctor of Science, Polytechnic Institute Brooklyn, 1946.
Doctor of Science, Washington University, 1948. Doctor of Science, University British Columbia, 1947. Doctor of Science, Occidental College, 1952.
Doctor of Science, University Maryland, 1955. Doctor of Science, Columbia, 1957. Doctor of Science, Indiana University, 1957.
Doctor of Science, University Wisconsin, 1957. Doctor of Science, Pennsylvania Military College, De Pauw University, 1962. Doctor of Science, Pomona College, Rockefeller Institute, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1965.
Doctor of Science, Syracuse University, 1969. Doctor of Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1970. Doctor of Laws, University California, 1948.
Doctor of Laws, University Rochester, 1953. Doctor of Laws, University Southern California, 1957. Doctor of Laws, Northwestern University, 1958.
Doctor of Laws, Loyola University of Los Angeles, 1963. Doctor of Laws, University Notre Dame, 1967. Doctor of Laws, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1967.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Redlands University, 1958. Doctor of Humane Letters, University Judaism, 1958. Data Control Language, Union College, 1961.
Assistant in physics, University of Wisconsin, 1922-1925;
instructor, University of Wisconsin, 1925-1926;
National Research Council fellow, California Institute Technology, 1926-1928;
assistant professor physics, Washington University, St. Louis, 1928-1933;
associate professor, Washington University, 1933-1934;
professor physics, department chairman physics, U. Rochester, 1934-1946;
dean faculty arts science, U. Rochester, 1938-1941;
investigator, National Defense Research Committee
director radiation laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1940-1945;
president, California Institute Technology, 1946-1969;
president emeritus, 1970-1994. Science adviser to President United States, 1969-1970. Trustee Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California, 1948-1961.
Member science advising committee General Motors, 1971-1975. Member general advising committee A.E.C., 1946-1952. Naval Research Advisory Committee, 1945-1951, Air Force Science Advisory Board, 1945-1949.
Science advisor Weingart Foundation, 1979-1994. Member President's Communications Policy Board, 1950-1951, National Science Board, 1950-1954, 58-64. Chairman science advising committee Office Defense Mobilization, 1952-1956.
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Member National Manpower Council, 1951-1964. Member National Advisory Health Council, 1960-1961. Member distinguished civilan service awards board United States Civil Service Commission, 1963-1965.
Chairman Greater Los Angeles Urban Coalition, 1968-1969. Member President's Air Quality Advisory Board, 1968-1969, President's Science Advisory Committee, 1970-1972. Board directors National Merit Scholarship Corporation, 1963-1969, National Educational television, New York, 1962-1969.
Trustee Mellon Institute, 1958-1967, Rockefeller Foundation, 1956-1967, Nutrition Foundation, 1952-1963, Carnegie Endowment International Peace, 1951-1957, Community television Southern California, Los Angeles, 1962-1969, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 1962-1969, Thomas Alva Edison Foundation, 1960-1969, Pasadena Hall Science, 1977-1978. Fellow American Physical Society (president 1947). Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Pi Sigma, Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, Tau Kappa Alpha, Tau Beta Pi.
Married Doris May Koht, September 1, 1925 (deceased November 1973). Children: Barbara (Mistress David MacLeod), Richard Alvin. Married Arrola Bush Cole, November 30, 1974.