Roscoe G. Dickinson
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 Roscoe Gilkey Dickinson in 1923 |
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| Born | May 3, 1894 Brewer, Maine, USA |
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| Died | July 13, 1945 Pasadena, California, USA |
| Residence |  USA |
| Nationality | US |
| Field | Chemist |
| Institution | Caltech |
| Alma Mater | MIT and Throop College |
| Academic Advisor | Arthur Amos Noyes |
| Notable Students | Linus Pauling  Richard M. Noyes Arnold Orville Beckman |
| Known for | X-ray crystallography |
Roscoe Gilkey Dickinson (1894-1945) is notable for being the PhD advisor of the twice Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling. Dickinson received his PhD at Caltech under Arthur Amos Noyes in 1920. His area of notabilty was in X-ray crystallography.
Dickinson was the very first person to get a PhD from Caltech (then known as Throop College).
[edit] Scientific Ancestry
- Georg Erhardt Hamberger (1697-1755) (MD 1721, Jena)
- Christoph Andreas Mangold (1719-1767) (MD 1751, Erfurt)
- Ernst Gottfried Baldinger (1738-1804) (MD 1760, Jena)
- Johann Christian Wiegleb (1732-1800) (Apothecary 1765, Langensalza)
- Johann Friedrich August Gottling (1753-1809) (Apothecary 1775, Langensalza)
- Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner (1783-1857) (PhD 1805, Jena)
- Baron Justus von Liebig (1803-1873) (PhD 1822, Erlangen)
- Carl Schmidt (1822-1894) (PhD 1844, Giessen)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald (1855-1932) (PhD 1878, Dorpat)
- Arthur Amos Noyes (1866-1936) (PhD 1890, Leipzig)
- Roscoe Gilkey Dickinson (1894-1945) (PhD 1920, Caltech)
- Linus Carl Pauling (1901-1994) (PhD 1925, Caltech)
