Lee Alvin DuBridge

Lee DuBridge
DuBridge in 1950
Director of the Office of Science and Technology
In office January 20, 1969 – August 31, 1970
President	Richard Nixon
Preceded by	Donald Hornig
Succeeded by	Ed David
Chairman of the President's Science Advisory Committee
In office 1952–1956
President	Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower
Preceded by	Oliver Buckley
Succeeded by	Isidor Rabi
2nd President of the California Institute of Technology
In office 1946–1969
Preceded by	Robert Millikan
Succeeded by	Harold Brown
Personal details
Born	(1901-09-21)September 21, 1901 Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S.
Died	January 23, 1994(1994-01-23) (aged 92) Duarte, California, U.S.
Education	Cornell College (BA) University of Wisconsin, Madison (MA, PhD)
Awards	Vannevar Bush Award (1982)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of Rochester MIT Radiation Laboratory California Institute of Technology Washington University
Thesis	Variations in the photo-electric sensitivity of platinum (1926)
Doctoral advisor	Charles Mendenhall
Doctoral students	LeRoy Apker Robert H. Dicke Albert G. Hill

Lee Alvin DuBridge (21 September 1901 – 23 January 1994) was an American educator and physicist, best known as president of the California Institute of Technology from 1946–1969.^[1]