Background
Dynes was born in Ontario, Canada, where he earned a bachelor"s degree in mathematics and physics from the University of Western Ontario in 1964.
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McMaster University.
Career
Early years
He then earned master"s (1965) and doctorate (1968) degrees in physics from McMaster University. He became a naturalized United States citizen in 1984. Dynes worked at Bell Laboratories from 1964 to 1990, studying semiconductors and superconductors.
He then became professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego (University of California, San Diego), in 1991.
In 1996 he became Chancellor of the University of California, San Diego campus, then in 2003 was chosen to be the 18th President of the University of California system. Dynes remains active in his research and heads a modest sized low temperature physics laboratory at Berkeley.
He resigned on August 16. 2007, and was replaced by Mark Yudof, formerly chancellor of the University of Texas.
This event led President Mark Yudof to make changes to the buy out program
Personal life
Dynes naturalized to the United States in 1984.
Achievements
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Dynes" scientific honors include the 1990 Fritz London Memorial Prize in Low Temperature Physics and his 2001 election to the Council of the National Academy of Sciences, a society to which he was elected in 1989. Dynes is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Membership
National Academy of Sciences.
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Canada