William Richard Dickinson was a professor emeritus of geoscience at the University of Arizona and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Dickinson was a professor at Stanford University and joined the U of A faculty in 1979.
- Occupation
- geologist, archaeologist, earth scientist, cartographer
- Position held
- President of the Geological Society of America
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- October 26, 1931
- Died
- July 21, 2015
