Person
White, Guy Kendall (1925 - 2018)
AM FAA
- Born
- 31 May 1925
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 22 May 2018
- Occupation
- Physicist
Summary
Guy White was a pioneering experimentalist in low-temperature and solid-state physics, and cryogenics. Much of his career was spent at the CSIRO Divisions of Physics and Applied Physics, particularly the National Measurement Laboratory. Starting as Research Officer in 1950, he retired as Chief Research Scientist in 1990. His publications included Experimental techniques in low-temperature physics (1960) which ran to four editions and was regarded as a seminal text, and Heat capacity and thermal expansion at low temperature (1999) with T. H. K. Barron. White was Vice-President of the Australian Academy of Science from 1979 to 1980.
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Chronology
- 1945
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc(Hons)) University of Sydney
- 1947
- Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Sydney
- 1947 - 1950
- Award - CSIRO Overseas Studentship, University of Oxford
- 1950
- Education - DPhil, University of Oxford
- 1950 - 1953
- Career position - Research Officer, CSIRO Division of Physics
- 1953 - 1954
- Career position - Postdoctoral Research Officer, National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada
- 1955 - 1958
- Career position - Associate Research Officer, National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada
- 1958 - 1962
- Career position - Principal Research Officer, CSIRO National Measurement Laboratory
- 1962 - 1969
- Career position - Senior Principal Research Officer, CSIRO National Measurement Laboratory
- 1964 - 1965
- Career position - Visiting Member, Technical staff, Bell Telephone Laboratories, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- 1966
- Award - David Syme Research Prize, University of Melbourne
- 1969 - 1974
- Career position - Chief Research Scientist, National Measurement Laboratory, CSIRO Division of Applied Physics [I]
- 1970 - 2018
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
- 1974 - 1979
- Career position - Chairman, National Committee for CODATA and Scientific Information
- 1974 - 1979
- Career position - Chief Scientific Officer, CSIRO National Measurement Laboratory
- 1979 - 1980
- Career position - Vice-President, Australian Academy of Science
- 1979 - 1990
- Career position - Chief Scientific Officer, CSIRO Division of Applied Physics [II]
- 1980 - ?
- Career position - Advisory Editor, International Journal of Thermophysics
- 1983
- Award - Armco Iron Award, International Thermal Conductivity Conference
- 1990 - 2008
- Career position - Honorary Fellow, CSIRO National Measurement Laboratory
- 1994
- Award - DSc honoris causa, University of Wollongong
- 1994
- Award - Touloukian Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- 2000
- Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to low temperature physics, particularly as a former Chief Research Scientist with the CSIRO, and through scientific publications and teaching
- 2001
- Award - Centenary Medal for service to Australian society and science
Related entries
Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- Smith, Ailie, Adolph Basser Library Manuscript Collection, eScholarship Research Centre, 2012, http://www.eoas.info/basser_browse.html. Details
Journal Articles
- Anon, 'Dr Guy Kendall White AM FAA 31 May 1925 to 22 May 2018', Australian Academy of Science Newsletter, 117 (2018), 17. https://www.science.org.au/academy-newsletter/june-2018-117. Details
- Bennie, Roy James; and Grove, Harry Ernest, 'How the design of a manufacturing plant was evolved from a chemical formula (Paper &', Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers 1929-1930 (1931). http://hdl.handle.net/11343/24730. Details
- Collocotta, Stephen J.; and Finlayson, Trevor R., 'Guy Kendall White 1925 - 2018', Historical Records of Australian Science, 34 (1) (2023), 63-74. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR22013. Details
- White, Guy, 'Introduction [to papers presented at Festschrift to mark the 70th birthday of Geoffrey Fletcher]', Australian journal of physics, 46 (5) (1993), 599-600. Details
- White, Guy, 'Jeofrey Courtney-Pratt 1920 - 1995', Australian and New Zealand physicist, 32 (10) (1995), 227. Details
- White, Guy K., 'Thermophysical measurements at the Australian National Measurement Laboratory', Australian and New Zealand physicist, 28 (11) (191), 238-43. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q66737960. Details
- 'White, Guy K (1925-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1235710. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Obituary: Dr Guy Kendall White AM FAA', in Fellows Update - June 2018, Australian Academy of Science, 25 June 2018, https://www.science.org.au/academy-newsletter/june-2018-117/fellows-update%E2%80%94june-2018. Details
- Fletcher, Neville, 'Interview with Dr Guy White', in Interviews with Australian scientists, Australian Academy of Science, 2010, http://science.org.au/scientists/interviews/w/white.html. Details
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Created: 25 May 2001, Last modified: 15 June 2022