Robert Dynes, who built a research power at UC San Diego and led UC system, dies at 82

Robert Dynes, who built a research power at UC San Diego and led UC system, dies at 82

Robert C. Dynes, the blunt-spoken physicist who helped turn UC San Diego into a global research power as its chancellor and who later guided the University of California through deep money problems as the system’s president, died Monday at his home in La Jolla. He was 82. UC San Diego did not cite a cause of death for Dynes, a first-generation college graduate who spent the end of his career quietly developing a device meant to mimic the human b…