PROFESSOR JAMES LINDSAY WHITE
1938 - 2009
James Lindsay White was born to Robert Lindsay and Margaret (Young) White in
Brooklyn on January 3, 1938. His father's family originated from Scotland
in the 1880's from a long line of coal miners and later machine shop owners.
He attended Brooklyn Technical High School and later studied Chemical
Engineering at the Brooklyn Polytechnical Institute. He then joined the
Department of Chemical Engineering in the research group of Prof. A.B.
Metzner at the Un
