William Comings White
Deceased Person
1890 – 1965
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Who was William Comings White?
William Comings White was an electrical engineer. He was research assistant to, and cousin of, the Nobel Prize winning chemist Irving Langmuir at the General Electric research laboratory.
He helped to develop the Kenotron and Pliotron, two- and three-electrode vacuum tubes, which could be exhausted to an exceedingly high vacuum.
He was awarded an honorary degree by Columbia University in 1948.
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