Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Herman Brenner White, Jr.
Herman Brenner White, Jr.
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| Other authors / contributors: | White, Herman Brenner, 1948- interviewee.
Williams, Linda, interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Linda Williams, interviewer.
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2006 November 13.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Physicist Herman Brenner White was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on September 28, 1948. He obtained his B.A. degree in physics from Earlham College in 1970. During graduate school at Michigan State University, White split his time at Michigan State's Cyclotron Laboratory and the Argonne National Laboratory. As an award for excellent graduate research, White became an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow and was sent to study in Switzerland at the CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics. In 1974, he received his M.S. degree in physics and became a neutrino physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. White was a teaching fellow from 1976 to 1978 in physics at Yale University. In 1987, he taught physics again during his doctoral studies at Florida State University and received his Ph.D. in 1991. White was a staff physicist and scientist and held various positions at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory beginning in 1974.
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