Title

History Makers Series: Herman Brenner White

Authors

Herman Brenner White, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Files

Speaker Bio

Physicist Herman Brenner White was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on September 28, 1948. He attended Macon County public schools and developed a great interest in science at an early age. Growing up so close to the Tuskegee Institute, White was able to talk to the professors there about science. In 1966, he graduated from the Tuskegee Institute High School. He decided to attend Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana for his undergraduate studies where he obtained his B.A. degree in physics in 1970. During graduate school at Michigan State University. White split his time at Michigan State's Cyclotron Laboratory in East Lansing. Michigan and the Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne. Illinois. As an award for excellent graduate research, White became an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow and was sent to study in Geneva, Switzerland at the CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics in 1972. He found a new passion there and shifted his research areas from nuclear and acceleration physics to particle physics. In 1974. he received his M.S. degree in physics from Michigan State University.

Publication Date

9-2013

Disciplines

Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education | Education | Gender Equity in Education

Recommended Citation

White, Herman Brenner, "History Makers Series: Herman Brenner White" (2013). Speaker Series. 4.
https://digitalcommons.imsa.edu/dei_speakers/4