Distinguished for his contributions to the physics of radio and radar and for his outstanding work for science in Australia as Chief Executive Officer, Deputy-Chairman, and now as Chairman of C.S.I.R.O. Dr. White was Professor of Physics in Canterbury University College, New Zealand 1937-42, and then served as Chief of the Radiophysics Division of C.S.I.R.O. during the remainder of the war. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, past Chairman of its Australian Branch, and is a Fellow of the Australian Institution of Radio Engineers.