William Comings White
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William Comings White (1890–1965) was an electrical engineer.[1] He was research assistant to, and cousin[2] of, the Nobel Prize winning chemist Irving Langmuir at the General Electric research laboratory.[3] He was born in Brooklyn and lived most of his life in Schenectady, NY and lived on Lowell Road in the GE Plot.[4]
He helped to develop the Kenotron and Pliotron, two- and three-electrode vacuum tubes, which could be exhausted to an exceedingly high vacuum.[5]
He was awarded an honorary degree by Columbia University in 1948.[6]
His papers are housed at the Schaffer Library Special Collections Department of Union College.[7]
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