Robert C. Dynes

Dr. Robert C. Dynes (born November 8, 1942 in London, Ontario, Canada), Ph.D, was the president of the University of California system from 2003 until 2008-06-16. He is currently a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Dynes earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics from the University of Western Ontario in 1964, 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 (UCSD) in 1991. In 1996 he became chancellor of the UCSD campus, then in 2003 was chosen to be the 18th president of the University of California system.

His numerous scientific honors include the 1990 Fritz London Award 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.

He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dynes remains active in his research and heads a modest sized low temperature physics laboratory at Berkeley.

On August 13, 2007, Dynes announced that he was leaving the Office of the President to return to his teaching position. He resigned on 2008-06-16 and was replaced by Mark Yudof, who was previously the Chancellor of the University of Texas. [citation
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External links

* [http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/president/bio.html Biography of Robert C. Dynes]
* [http://dyneslab.berkeley.edu Homepage of the Dynes Lab at Berkeley]