Lee Alvin DuBridge

Lee 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	September 21, 1901; Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S.
Died	January 23, 1994 (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.

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