Arthur F. Van Dyck was born in New York on May 20, 1891. After earning his Ph.D. from Yale in 1911, he did research for the National Electric Signalling Company until 1912. From 1912 until 1914 Van Dyck was a member of the Research Department of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. After teaching electrical engineering at the Carnegie Institute from 1914 to 1917 he became an Expert Radio Aide for the U.S. Navy and was stationed at the New York Navy Yard and at the Navy Department in Washington until 1919. Van Dyck then joined the Marconi Company in 1919 where he was in charge of the Engineering Department. From 1920 to 1922 Van Dyck was in charge of radio receiver design for General Electric in New York.

In 1922 Van Dyck became associated with the Radio Corporation of America as a member of RCA’s Technical and Test Department. Van Dyck was then promoted to manager of the Technical and Test Department in 1929 before being put in charge of the new License Laboratory in New York City in 1930. He held this position until World War II when he spent three years on active duty with the U.S. Navy. From 1946 until his retirement from RCA in 1956 Van Dyck was a Staff Assistant to the Vice President and Technical Director, Dr. C.B. Jolliffe. Van Dyck was a charter Associate member of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) and served as president in 1942. Arthur Van Dyck died in June of 1978.