Harvey Elliott White

Harvey Elliott White (born 28 January 1902 in Parkersburg, West Virginia - died 3 October 1988 in Modesto, California) was an American physicist and professor at University of California, Berkeley ^[1]

Early life and education

Education: Occidental College, A.B., 1925; Cornell University, Ph.D., 1929. National Research Council Fellow, Pysikalische Technische Reichsanstalt, 1929–30.^[2]

career

Instructor in Physics, 1927–29, Cornell University; Assistant Professor of Physics, 1930–38, Associate Professor, 1938–42, University of California; Professor, 1942, University of California,

Teaching career

In 1956 the Ford Foundation gave him a grant to produce a nine-month high school physics course with the educational TV station WQED. He presented five half-hour programs each week, 163 in all. In 1958 the Ford Foundation invited him to go to New York for a series called Continental Classroom. The series was successful, viewed by millions and aired by over 150 television stations.

Academic and career honors

He received a Guggenheim Fellowship (1941) according List of Guggenheim Fellowships 1941. In contrast Calisphere ^[1] states the year 1948. It supported him in investigating the spectroscopy of volcanic gases in Hawaii.

Selected bibliography

• White, Harvey Elliott Introduction to Atomic Spectra (McGraw-Hill, 1934)
• Jenkins, Francis and White, Harvey Elliott Fundamentals of Physical Optics (1937)

References