The Papers of Lee A. DuBridge span the years 1932 to 1986 and contain correspondence, documents, reports, speeches, and memorabilia which reflect his tenure as chairman of the department of physics, University of Rochester; head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Radiation Laboratory; president of the California Institute of Technology; and his active participation in scores of professional, governmental and civic organizations.

Lee Alvin DuBridge, president of the California Institute of Technology from 1946 to 1969, was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, on September 21, 1901. He majored in physics at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, and received his PhD in 1926 from the University of Wisconsin. The subject of his thesis, the photoelectric effect, continued to occupy him during his first postdoctoral years, initially as a National Research Council fellow at Caltech under Robert A. Millikan (1926-1928), and subsequently as assistant professor of physics at Washington University, St. Louis. DuBridge co-authored Photoelectric Phenomena (1932) with Arthur L. Hughes, chairman of physics at Washington University, and later published his own book, New Theories of the Photoelectric Effect, in 1935.

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