Widtsoe Presidential Endowed Chair in Chemistry
Distinguished Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Utah
315 South 1400 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0850
E-Mail: white@chem.utah.edu
Phone: (801) 585-6256
Office: B423 TBBC
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Henry S. White received his B.S. degree from the University of North Carolina (1978)
and his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from the University of Texas (1983). Prof. White
studied under the direction of Prof. Allen J. Bard at Texas, working on solar energy
conversion using transition metal dichalcogenide photoelectrodes. Following a postdoctoral
appointment at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he joined the faculty of the
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota,
where he was the McKnight and Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering. In 1993, he
moved to the Department of Chemistry at the University of Utah where he is a Distinguished
Professor. Prof. White has published ~300 peer-reviewed articles, chapters, and patents,
including the 3rd Edition of Electrochemical Methods: Fundamentals and Applications. Henry also served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society from 2001 to 2016. Current research interests include high-field transport in nanometer-wide
electrochemical cells, DNA structural analyses using protein ion channel recordings,
the formation and stability of nanobubbles, and transport phenomena in nanopores.
He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is the recipient of
the Faraday Medal from the Electrochemical Section of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the C. N. Reilley Award of the Society of Electroanalytical Chemistry, the D. C. Grahame and Carl Wagner Awards of The Electrochemical Society, and the American Chemical Society Analytical Division Award in Electrochemistry. Prof. White was the Dean of the College
of Science at the University of Utah from 2014 to 2019, and previously served as Chair
of the Department of Chemistry from 2007 to 2013.
