Robert C. Dynes

Robert C. Dynes
18th President of the University of California San Diego
In office 1996–2003
Preceded by	Richard C. Atkinson
Succeeded by	Marye Anne Fox
Personal details
Born	(1942-11-08) 8 November 1942 (age 81) University of California San Diego University of California University of California, Berkeley

Robert Carr Dynes (born November 8, 1942) is a Canadian-American physicist, researcher, and academic administrator, and professor of physics at the

.

Biography

Early years

Dynes was born in Ontario, Canada, where he earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics from the University of Western Ontario in 1964. He then earned master's (1965) and doctorate (1968) degrees in physics from McMaster University. He became a naturalized United States citizen in 1984.

Career

Dynes worked at

(UCSD), in 1991. In 1996 he became Chancellor of the UCSD campus, then in 2003 was chosen to be the 18th President of the University of California system.

Dynes' scientific honors include the 1990 Fritz London Memorial Prize in Low Temperature Physics and his 2001 election to the Council of the National Academy of Sciences, a society to which he was elected in 1989.

Dynes is a fellow of the American Physical Society (1981),^[1] the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dynes remains active in his research and heads a modest sized low temperature physics laboratory at Berkeley.

After five tumultuous years as President of UC, filled with compensation scandals, the suicide of UCSC Chancellor

.

In November 2008, Dynes' close aide and his UC Associate President Linda Morris Williams was awarded a controversial pay out

Personal life

Dynes naturalized to the United States in 1984. He married Cristel Dynes in 1968 and they divorced in January 1998. He married a physics professor, Frances Hellman,^[9] in May 1998 and they divorced in 2006. He married a former UCSD legal counsel and UC Associate of the President, Ann Parode,^[10] in March 2007.^[9]

References

• Cerolyn Jones (14 August 2007). "Dynes Quitting as Head of UC - Presided Over Compensation Scandal". The San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2008-11-30.
• Cerolyn Jones (14 August 2007). "Dynes' tenure". The San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2008-11-30.

Notes

External links

• Oral history interview transcript with Robert Dynes on 30 March 2020, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
• Biography of Robert C. Dynes
• Homepage of Robert C. Dynes at UC San Diego

Academic offices
Preceded by Richard C. Atkinson	Chancellor of the University of California San Diego 1995–2003	Succeeded by Marye Anne Fox
Preceded by Richard C. Atkinson	President of the University of California 2003–2008	Succeeded by Mark Yudof