Walter P. Dyke

First Recipient of the Dyke Award (1988)

 

Walter P. Dyke served as Staff Member in the MIT Radiation Laboratory. He then received his PhD in Physics from the University of Washington and subsequently became Professor of Physics, Head of Department, and Director or Research at Linfield College. Subsequent positions were with the Linfield Research Institute and the Field Emission Corporation. In his investigations in field emission, thermal-field emission, and vacuum breakdown, among the first done under well-defined experimental conditions, significantly advanced the knowledge of these subjects.
[©1988].
 

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