Roscoe G. Dickinson

Roscoe Gilkey Dickinson (May 3, 1894 – July 13, 1945) was an American 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^[1] and of Arnold O. Beckman, inventor of the pH meter.

Roscoe Dickinson
Born	(1894-05-03)May 3, 1894 Brewer, Maine, United States
Died	July 13, 1945(1945-07-13) (aged 51) Pasadena, California, United States
Alma mater	MIT and Caltech
Known for	X-ray crystallography
Scientific career
Fields	Chemist
Institutions	Caltech
Doctoral advisor	Arthur Amos Noyes
Doctoral students	Linus Pauling Richard M. Noyes Arnold Orville Beckman

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.^[2]