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Professor. In 1958 he became Vice Chairman of the physics department. He designed two new buildings for the department at Berkeley, the second the 525-seat Physical Sciences Lecture Hall, which has a revolving stage divided into 120° sections each with its own chalkboard and demonstration facilities, and was also founder Director of the
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While at Cornell, White was an Instructor in Physics from 1927 to 1929. After receiving his PhD and returning from Germany, he spent his career at the University of California, Berkeley: he was an Assistant Professor of Physics from 1930 to 1938, Associate Professor from 1938 to 1942, and then
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gave him a grant to produce a nine-month high-school physics course with the educational TV station
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He married Adeline Dally in 1928; they had three children. White dedicated his textbook
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In 1928 Occidental College awarded White a Sc.D. degree. In 1941 he was awarded a
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Index

Harvey E. White
physicist
University of California, Berkeley
Parkersburg, West Virginia
Pasadena, California
Occidental College
Cornell University
National Research Council
Physikalische Technische Reichsanstalt
Germany
atomic spectroscopy
Friedrich Paschen
Lawrence Hall of Science
quantum mechanics
World War II
Ernest Lawrence
vapor pressure
uranium
optics
instructional television
San Francisco Bay Area
Ford Foundation
WQED
NBC
Continental Classroom
Guggenheim Fellowship
spectroscopic
Mauna Loa
Hawaii
Peabody Award

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