Herman B. White Biography  -  Sponsored by: Mark D. Goodman Favorites Color Blue Food Apple Pie with Ice Cream Quote “Outstanding!”

Distinguished physicist Herman Brenner White, Jr. was born in Tuskegee (Macon County), Alabama on September 28, 1948. Growing up and attending public schools in Macon County, Alabama, White developed a great interest in science at an early age. After graduation from Tuskegee Institute High School in 1966, White attended Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana and obtained his A.B. degree in physics. He completed his graduate education in nuclear and accelerator physics at Michigan State University and high energy and particle physics at Yale University and Florida State University, earning his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics.

White has been a member of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory scientific staff for the past thirty-three years. Over the past three decades at 0">Fermilab and other laboratories, he has collaborated on numerous high-energy particle physics experiments in addition to the design of high-energy particle beam and detector systems. White worked as both Kaon researcher and diplomat in collaborating with Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi in Central Mexico to build components of the detector for Fermilab's proposed charged Kaons at the main injector experiment. White is a senior scientist at the highest energy particle accelerator in the world, where atoms are smashed to reveal more about nature's fundamental building blocks.

Among his honors, White has received an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation travel fellowship to CERN, Geneva Switzerland in 1972, and was awarded a university fellowship in physics at Yale University 1976-1978. He was selected as the third Illinois Industrial Research Corridor Fellow for North Central College in 1994, and in addition, serves as Adjunct Professor of Physics at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. Students at North Central College are privileged to study with this renowned researcher, talented teacher, and college trustee in a program that links students with professionals from the Illinois Research and Development Corridor. White is a member of the American Physical Society's Public Face of Physics Team, and serves on various physics communication and advisory panels for the American Physical Society and governmental agencies.

White was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on November 13, 2006.