Harvey Elliott White (January 28, 1902 – October 3, 1988) was an American physicist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
[1] In 1929–30 he was a National Research Council Fellow at the Physikalische Technische Reichsanstalt in Germany, working on atomic spectroscopy under Friedrich Paschen.
In 1956 the Ford Foundation gave him a grant to produce a nine-month high-school physics course with the educational TV station WQED.
In 1958 the Ford Foundation invited him to go to New York to present the inaugural year of NBC's national series called Continental Classroom.
[1] In 1941 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for a spectroscopic study of the gases of the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii;[2] this was postponed until 1948.