Background
Brode, Robert B. was born on June 12, 1900 in Walla Walla, Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Howard Stidham and Martha Catherine (Bigham) Brode.
Brode, Robert B. was born on June 12, 1900 in Walla Walla, Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Howard Stidham and Martha Catherine (Bigham) Brode.
Bachelor of Science, Whitman College, 1921; Doctor of Science, Whitman College, 1954; Doctor of Philosophy, California Institute Technology, 1924; postgraduate (Rhodes scholar), University of Oxford, England, 1924-1925; International Education Board fellow, Göttingen U., Germany, 1925-1926; National Research Council fellow, Princeton University, 1926-1927; Doctor of Laws, University of California, Berkeley, 1970.
Associate physicist, United States Bureau Standards, 1924;
assistant professor physics, University of California, Berkeley, 1927-1930;
associate professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1930-1932;
professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1932-1967;
professor emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, 1967-1986. Visiting professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1932. Guggenheim fellow London and Cambridge, 1934-1935.
Physicist department terrestrial magnetism Carnegie Institute, 1941. Section T., applied physics laboratory Office of Scientific Research and Development, Johns Hopkins, U., 1942-1943, supervisingresearch and development on proximity fuse and fire control equipment. Group leader Los Alamos Atomic Bomb Laboratory, 1943-1946, Harvard, summer 1948.
Member physics division National Research Council, 1951-1957. Vice president International Union Pure and Applied Physics, 1954-1960, United States delegate International Council of Scientific Unions, Norway,1955, Washington, 1958. Associate director National Science Foundation, 1958-1959.
Member board foreign scholarships Department State, 1963-1966.
Fellow American Physical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science (vice president 1949, pres Pacific division 1956). Member American Association Physics Teachers, American Association University Professors (Second vice president 1960-1961), American Association Rhodes Scholars, American Academy Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Bernice Hedley Bidwell, September 16,1926. Children: William (deceased), John Howard.