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 - BSc (hons) University of Sydney
1947
Education - 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
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

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Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

  • Guy Kendall White - Records, 1959 - 1993, MS 200; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

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

Resource Sections

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