They received 2013 IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal for pioneering innovation and leadership in MEMS technology.
[3] White is known for inventing the Interdigital Transducer (IDT) and for his surface acoustic wave work, he received the 2003 Rayleigh Award.
He continued on at Harvard, earning his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1956 with his dissertation on the scattering of sound waves at a cylindrical bore in a solid.
White joined the Electrical Engineering Department at UC Berkeley in 1962 where he invented interdigitated transducers for surface acoustic wave devices.
[7] White received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1968 and was made a Fellow of the IEEE in 1972 "for contributions to the discovery and applications of surface elastic waves."