Nationality American Name Roscoe Dickinson Fields Chemist Role Chemist | Institutions Caltech Known for X-ray crystallography Alma mater MIT and Caltech | |
Born May 3, 1894
Brewer, Maine, USA ( 1894-05-03 ) Doctoral students Linus Pauling
Richard M. Noyes
Arnold Orville Beckman Died July 13, 1945, Pasadena, California, United States Education California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Notable students Linus Pauling, Arnold Orville Beckman Similar People Linus Pauling, Arthur Amos Noyes, Arnold Orville Beckman, Richard C Tolman, Arnold Sommerfeld | ||
Doctoral advisor Arthur Amos Noyes | ||
Roscoe Gilkey Dickinson (May 3, 1894 – July 13, 1945) was a U.S. chemist, known primarily for his work on X-ray crystallography. As professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), he was the doctoral advisor of Nobel laureate Linus Pauling and of Arnold O. Beckman, inventor of the pH 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 his dissertation he had studied the crystal structures of wulfenite, scheelite, sodium chlorate, and sodium bromate. His graduate advisor was Arthur Amos Noyes.
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