Robert H. Dyson, Jr. (August 2, 1927 – February 14, 2020)[1] was an American archaeologist who served as director of the Penn Museum (1982–1994).
[1][2] Dyson was born in York, Pennsylvania, in 1927, and received his PhD from Harvard University in 1966.
[3] He served as the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 1979 to 1982 and was the director of the Penn Museum from 1982 to 1994.
[1] Dyson was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1971,[4] served as the president of the Archaeological Institute of America,[1] and was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1984.
After his retirement from Pennsylvania, a Robert H. Dyson chair was endowed at the Department of Anthropology and Near East section of the Penn Museum in his honor.