Pieter S. Dubbelday received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics and mathematics, and the Ph.D. degree in nuclear physics in 1959 from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In 1956, he did research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, under a fellowship and Fulbright grant.He was a Research Associate and Instructor at the University of Wisconsin from 1959 to 1961. From 1961 to 1966, he was a Senior Engineer with RCA, International Service Company, Patrick Air Force Base, FL, and from 1966 to 1981 he was Professor of Physics and Oceanography at the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, FL. Since 1981, he has been a Research Physicist with the Naval Research Laboratory, Underwater Sound Reference Detachment in Orlando, FL. His research interests are in elastic properties of elastomers, fluid-structure interaction, and the determination of particle velocity in hydroacoustic fields.
Dr. Dubbelday received the Teacher of the Year Award in 1980 and the Alan Berman Research Publication Award in 1984 and 1987. He is a member of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, and serves on the ASA's Committee on Standards.