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Dr. G. John Dick received his A.B. in Physics and Mathematics from Bethel College (Kansas) in 1961, and received a Ph.D. degree in physics from U.C. Berkeley in 1969. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Caltech, he joined the research faculty there as Senior Research Fellow, developing RF resonator technology for superconducting accelerator applications. During 1979-1980, he was also appointed as a visiting faculty member at SUNY, Stonybrook. In 1986, Dr. Dick joined the staff of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where he is presently Principal Member of the Technical Staff. Duties include development of cryogenic sapphire oscillators (10K CSO) presently under construction for installation in NASA's Deep Space Network and Project Scientist responsibility for SUMO, a Superconducting Microwave Oscillator experiment scheduled for a second flight of the Low Temperature Microgravity Physics Facility (LTMPF) aboard the International Space Station. Research interests include high-Q cryogenic resonator design and atomic frequency standard systematics. In April 1999, Dr. Dick was awarded "Le Prix Européen Temps-Fréquence", which was presented at the joint meeting of the 13th European Frequency and Time Forum and 1999 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium. The award is granted every two years by the Société Française de Microtechniques et de Chronométrie to an individual or group for "degree of initiative and creativity, quality of work, degree of success obtained, and worldwide impact on the time and frequency associated community." | 