词条 | Fred White (scientist) |
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| name = Sir Fred White | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|KBE|DSc|FAA|FRS|size=100%}} | birth_name = Frederick William George White | image = | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date |1905|05|26}}[1] | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age | 1994|08|07 |1905|05|26}} | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | other_names = | pronounce = | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = | workplaces = CSIRO | patrons = | education = | alma_mater = | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | spouse = | partner = | children = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = }}Sir Frederick William George White {{post-nominals|country=AUS|KBE|DSc|FAA|FRS}} (26 May 1905 – 17 August 1994) was a New Zealand-born Australian scientist (physicist and ornithologist) who was Chairman of CSIRO from 1959 to 1970.[2][3][4][5] Education and early lifeWhite was born in 1905 in Johnsonville. He received his education at Wellington College and Victoria University College. Due to his academic performance, he won a scholarship from the University of New Zealand, and this award enabled him to attend St John's College, Cambridge, where he studied under Ernest Rutherford.{{fact|date=December 2017}} Career and researchHe taught at King's College London from 1932, and was lecturer at Canterbury College in Christchurch, New Zealand, from 1937. During World War II, White worked on secret projects developing radar in New Zealand and Australia.[2] Awards and honoursIn the 1954 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).[6] In the 1962 Birthday Honours, this was elevated to the class of Knight Commander of the same order (KBE).[7][8] Personal lifeWhite died in Melbourne on 17 August 1994. His wife Elizabeth had died two years prior.[2] References1. ^{{cite journal|last1=Minnett|first1=H. C.|last2=Robertson|first2=Rutherford Ness|title=Sir Frederick William George White, C. B. E., 26 May 1905 - 17 August 1994|journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society|volume=42|year=1996|pages=497–521|issn=0080-4606|doi=10.1098/rsbm.1996.0030}} 2. ^1 2 {{cite web |author= Dennis Young |title= White, Sir Frederick William George (Fred) (1905–1994) |work= Obituaries Australia |publisher= National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |url= http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/white-sir-frederick-william-george-fred-1035 }} originally publisher in ANU Reporter, 12 October 1994, p 11. 3. ^{{cite web |author1= H.C. Minnett |author2= Sir Rutherford Robertson |title= Frederick William George White 1905-1994 |url= http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/aasmemoirs/whitefwg.htm |work= Biographical Memoirs of Deceased Fellows |publisher= Australian Academy of Science }} originally published in Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 11, no. 2, December 1996, pp. 239-258 4. ^White, Frederick William George (1905 - 1994), Encyclopaedia of Australian Science 5. ^White, Frederick (1905-1994), trove.nla.gov.au 6. ^{{cite web |title= The Order of the British Empire - Commander (Civil) |date= 1 January 1954 |publisher= It's an Honour |quote= Chief Executive of the CSIRO |url= http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=1064456&search_type=simple&showInd=true }} 7. ^{{cite web |title= The Order of the British Empire - Knights Commander (Civil) |date= 2 June 1962 |publisher= It's an Honour |quote= Chairman of the CSIRO |url= http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=1082194&search_type=simple&showInd=true }} 8. ^{{London Gazette |issue=42684 |supp=y |date=25 May 1962 |page=4344 }} External links
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