William Comings White

William Comings White

William Comings White (1890-1965) was an electrical engineer. [cite book |title=The American Engineer |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=RNImAAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 |accessdate=2008-01-21 |year=1967 |publisher=National Society ofProfessional Engineers |pages=p. 18] He was research assistant to, and cousin [cite book |last=Langmuir |first=Irving |authorlink=Irving Langmuir |title=The Collected Works of Irving Langmuir |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=bDgYAAAAIAAJ&pgis=1 |accessdate=2008-01-21 |year=1960 |publisher=Pergamon Press |pages=p. 101 ] of, the Nobel Prize winning chemist Irving Langmuir at the General Electric research laboratory. [cite book |last=Birr |first=Kendall |title=Pioneering in Industrial Research: The Story of the General Electric Research Laboratory |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=CT9L-aH3GpoC&pgis=1 |accessdate=2008-01-21 |year=1957 |publisher=Public Affairs Press |pages=p. 52]

He helped to develop the Kenotron and Pliotron, two- and three-electrode vacuum tubes, which could be exhausted to an exceedingly high vacuum. [cite book |title=Vacuum Tubes in Wireless Communication |last=Bucher |first=Elmer E. |year=1919 |publisher= |url=http://hjem.get2net.dk/helthansen/the_tubes.htm]

He was awarded an honorary degree by Columbia University in 1948. [cite news |title=COLUMBIA DEGREES ARE GIVEN TO |url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40C11F63F5F167B93C0A9178DD85F4C8485F9 |work=New York Times |date=1948-06-02 |accessdate=2008-01-21 ]

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