- Roscoe G. Dickinson
Infobox_Scientist
name = Roscoe Dickinson
image_width = 200px
caption = Roscoe Gilkey Dickinson in 1923
birth_date = birth date|1894|5|3|mf=y
birth_place =Brewer ,Maine ,USA
residence =USA
nationality = US
death_date = death date|1945|7|13|mf=y
death_place = Pasadena,California ,USA
field =Chemist
work_institution = Caltech
alma_mater =MIT and Caltech
doctoral_advisor =Arthur Amos Noyes
doctoral_students =Linus Pauling Richard M. Noyes Arnold Orville Beckman
known_for =X-ray crystallography
prizes =
footnotes =
religionRoscoe Gilkey Dickinson (1894 - 1945) was a U.S. chemist, known primarily for his work on
X-ray crystallography . Asprofessor of chemistry at theCalifornia Institute of Technology (Caltech), he was the doctoral advisor of Nobel laureateLinus Pauling and of Arnold O. Beckmann, inventor of thepH meter .Dickinson received his undergraduate education at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and, in 1920, became the first person to receive a PhD from Caltech (which had recently changed its name from Throop College). For hisdissertation he had studied thecrystal structures ofwulfenite ,scheelite ,sodium chlorate , andsodium bromate . His graduate advisor wasArthur Amos Noyes .cientific Ancestry
See also
Chemistry genealogy
*Rocabonela (1386-1459)
*Pelope
*Nicolo da Lonigo (1428-1524) (MD 1453, Padua)
*Antonio Musa Brassavola (1500-1555) (MD 1520, Ferrara)
*Gabriele Falloppio (1523-1562) (MD 1548, Ferrara)
*Girolamo Fabrici (1533-1619) (MD 1559, Padua)
*Adriaan van den Spiegel (1578-1625) (MD 1603, Padua)
*Werner Rolfinck (1599-1673) (MD 1625, Padua)
*Georg Wolfgang Wedel (1645-1721) (MD 1669, Jena)
*Johann Adolph Wedel (1675-1747) (MD 1697, Jena)
*Georg Erhardt Hamberger (1697-1755) (MD 1721, Jena)
*Christoph Andreas Mangold (1719-1767) (MD 1751, Erfurt)
*Ernst Gottfried Baldinger (1738-1804) (MD 1760, Jena)
*Johann Christian Wiegleb (1732-1800) (Apothecary 1765, Langensalza)
*Johann Friedrich August Gottling (1753-1809) (Apothecary 1775, Langensalza)
*Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner (1783-1857) (PhD 1805, Jena)
*Baron Justus von Liebig (1803-1873) (PhD 1822, Erlangen)
*Carl Schmidt (1822-1894) (PhD 1844, Giessen)
*Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald (1855-1932) (PhD 1878, Dorpat)
*Arthur Amos Noyes (1866-1936) (PhD 1890, Leipzig)
*Roscoe Gilkey Dickinson (1894-1945) (PhD 1920, Caltech)
*Linus Carl Pauling (1901-1994) (PhD 1925, Caltech)External links
* [http://etd.caltech.edu/etd/available/etd-08112004-160640 Dickinson's Ph.D. thesis]
* [http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/bond/people/dickinson.html A collection] of digitized materials related to Dickinson's andLinus Pauling 's structural chemistry research.
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