William Comings White (1890–1965) was an electrical engineer. [1] He was research assistant to, and cousin [2] of, the Nobel Prize winning chemist Irving Langmuir at the General Electric research laboratory. [3] He was born in Brooklyn and lived most of his life in Schenectady, NY and lived on Lowell Road in the GE Plot. [4]
He helped to develop the Kenotron and Pliotron, two- and three-electrode vacuum tubes, which could be exhausted to an exceedingly high vacuum. [5]
He was awarded an honorary degree by Columbia University in 1948. [6]
His papers are housed at the Schaffer Library Special Collections Department of Union College. [7]
References
- ^ The American Engineer. National Society of Professional Engineers. 1967. p. 18. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
- ^ Langmuir, Irving (1960). The Collected Works of Irving Langmuir. Pergamon Press. p. 101. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
- ^ Birr, Kendall (1957). Pioneering in Industrial Research: The Story of the General Electric Research Laboratory. PublicAffairs. p. 52. ISBN 9780598740366. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
- ^ Leonard, John William; Downs, Winfield Scott; Lewis, M. M. (1922-01-01). Who's who in Engineering. John W. Leonard Corporation.
- ^ Bucher, Elmer E. (1919). Vacuum Tubes in Wireless Communication.
- ^ "COLUMBIA DEGREES ARE GIVEN TO". New York Times. 1948-06-02. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
- ^ "William Comings White Papers, ca. 1924-1955 | Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation". www.invention.si.edu. 23 July 2014. Retrieved 2015-10-04.
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