Richard M. White was a professor emeritus in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and a Co-Founding Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center.
Professor White's research interests include wireless microsensors, energy scavenging devices for use in electric power systems, and portable particulate matter monitors for measuring concentrations of airborne aerosols and diesel exhaust particulates.
Prior to joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, Professor White conducted microwave device research at General Electric. Professor White also holds numerous U.S. patents and has co-authored texts and reference books on Solar Cells (1983), Acoustic Wave Sensors (1997), and Electronics (2001). In addition to the 2003 Rayleigh Award of the IEEE for seminal contributions to surface acoustic wave technology, Professor White was a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the IEEE and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is the recipient of many academic awards including the IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award (1986), U.C. Berkeley Chancellor's Professorship, and the 2003 U.C. Berkeley Community Service citation award. In 2013, Professor White was a co-recipient of the IEEE/RSE/Wolfson, James Clerk Maxwell Award with Professor Richard Muller.
Professor White received his Ph.D. degree from Harvard University in Applied Physics in 1956.
Awards, Memberships, and Fellowships
- IEEE James Clerk Maxwell Medal, 2013
- UFFC Rayleigh Ultrasonics Award, 2003
- Chancellor's Award for Community Service, 2003
- UFFC W. G. Cady Frequency Control Award, 2000
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow, 1994
- National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Member, 1994
- UFFC Achievement Award, 1988
- UFFC W. G. Cady Frequency Control Award, 1987
- IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award, 1986
- Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow, 1972
- Guggenheim Fellow, 1968
- IEEE Life Member, 1961
