- Lee Alvin DuBridge
Lee Alvin DuBridge (
September 21 ,1901 –January 23 ,1994 ) was a U.S. educator andphysicist . He was bornSeptember 21 1901 inTerre Haute, Indiana . He graduated fromCornell College in 1922. He became the founding director of theRadiation Laboratory at MIT in 1940, and served until 1945. He also served as president of theCalifornia Institute of Technology between 1946 and 1969, and was the first presidentialScience Advisor of two administrations: under PresidentHarry S. Truman from 1953 to 1955, and under PresidentRichard Nixon from 1969 to 1970. He died of pneumonia at a retirement home in Duarte, California onJanuary 23 1994 .It is believed Fact|date=January 2008 that he was a pioneer of
vacuum tube technology: A small marker designates a small house in downtownPalo Alto , California as the one-time headquarters of theFederal Telegraph Company , where, early in the twentieth century, DuBridge developed the firstvacuum tube Fact|date=January 2008.External links
* [http://newton.nap.edu/html/biomems/ldubridge.html Memorial page for DuBridge] at the National Academy of Sciences.
* [http://oralhistories.library.caltech.edu/archive/00000059/01/OH_DuBridge_1.pdf Caltech oral history interview, Part I]
* [http://oralhistories.library.caltech.edu/archive/00000068/01/OH_DuBridge_2.pdf Caltech oral history interview, Part II]
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