Robert C. Dynes

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Robert C. Dynes

| image =

| image_size = 180px

| order = 18th

| title = President of the University of California

| term_start = 2003

| term_end = 2007

| predecessor1 = Richard C. Atkinson

| successor1 = Mark Yudof

| order2 = 7th

| title2 = Chancellor of the University of California San Diego

| term_start2 = 1996

| term_end2 = 2003

| predecessor2 = Richard C. Atkinson

| successor2 = Marye Anne Fox

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1942|11|08}}

| birth_place = London, Ontario, Canada

| alma_mater = University of Western Ontario
McMaster University

| profession = Academic administrator, physicist, professor, researcher

| spouse = {{ublist|Christel Dynes (1968-1998)|Frances Hellman (1998-2006) |Ann Parode (2007-present)}}

| blank1 = Institutions

| data1 = Bell Laboratories
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 University of California, Berkeley, and the former president of the University of California system, and former chancellor of the University of California San Diego.

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 Bell Laboratories from 1964 to 1990, studying semiconductors and superconductors. He then became professor of physics at the University of California San Diego (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),{{cite web|title=APS Fellow Archive|website=American Physical Society|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=1981&unit_id=&institution=Bell+Laboratories}} (search on year=1981 and institution=Bell Laboratories) 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 Denice Denton and other challenges,[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/14/DYNES.TMP SF Chronicle Scandal Mars UC Chief Legacy][http://www.sanfranmag.com/story/scandal-scapegoats-and-suicide San Francisco Magazine Scandals Scapegoats and Suicide][http://chronicle.com/news/article/2851/u-of-californias-president-robert-dynes-to-resign-after-tumultuous-5-years Five Tumultuous Years] on August 13, 2007, Dynes announced he would resign his position as the President of the University of California to return to his teaching position and spend time with his new wife, Ann Parode. He resigned on August 16. 2007, and was replaced by Mark Yudof, formerly chancellor of the University of Texas.

In November 2008, Dynes' close aide and his UC Associate President Linda Morris Williams was awarded a controversial pay outSF Chronicle "Severance, new UC job for aide in pay scandal" http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/26/MNBB14D1B4.DTLCalifornia State Auditor Report 2006-103, May 2, 2006 http://www.bsa.ca.gov/reports/2006-103/employees/232.html and re-hired as an Associate Chancellor at University of California, Berkeley by Chancellor Robert Birgeneau. This event led President Mark Yudof to make changes to the buy out program.Sf Chronicle "UC Chief Changes Buyout Plan"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2008/12/03/MNH614GCU0.DTL&o=2San Diego Reader "After the Fall" http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2008/dec/10/breaking-news-1/

=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,San Diego Reader "UCSD Big Money and Ball Club" http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2000/feb/24/ucsd-big-money-and-ball-club/ in May 1998 and they divorced in 2006. He married a former UCSD legal counsel and UC Associate of the President, Ann Parode,[http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/mar07/r.pdf Appointment of Ann Parode Dynes as Associate of the President March 2007 Regent Minutes] in March 2007.

References

{{cite news | author=Cerolyn Jones | title=Dynes Quitting as Head of UC - Presided Over Compensation Scandal | url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/14/MNVNRHPJA.DTL | work=The San Francisco Chronicle | date=14 August 2007 | accessdate=2008-11-30}}
{{cite news | author=Cerolyn Jones | title=Dynes' tenure | url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/14/MNBDRHFDO.DTL | work=The San Francisco Chronicle | date=14 August 2007 | accessdate=2008-11-30}}

Notes

External links

[https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/46763 Oral history interview transcript with Robert Dynes on 30 March 2020, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives]
[http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/president/bio.html Biography of Robert C. Dynes]
[http://rdynes.ucsd.edu Homepage of Robert C. Dynes at UC San Diego]

{{s-ttl

| title = Chancellor of the University of California San Diego

| years = 1995–2003}}

{{s-ttl

| title = President of the University of California

| years = 2003–2008}}

Category:1942 births

Category:Living people

Category:21st-century American physicists

Category:Canadian physicists

Category:Canadian emigrants to the United States

Category:McMaster University alumni