Abstract

White's career was dedicated to synoptic solar observations using a wide range of ground- and space-based observatories. He played a critical role in the NSF Precision Solar Photometric Telescope and was Co-Investigator on NASA's SORCE, TIMED, and SDO missions.

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  • Dick White was born in Clovis, New Mexico on September 23, 1932

  • Oran Richard (Dick) White died on Sunday the 19th of December, 2020

  • Dick served for two years in the Air Force as a Project Physicist at the Armaments Center at the Elgin AFB, Florida, and continued for eight years in the Air Force reserves

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Dick White was born in Clovis, New Mexico on September 23, 1932. In 1948 his family moved to Tucson, where Dick finished high school. Oran Richard (Dick) White died on Sunday the 19th of December, 2020. 1950, which led to a scholarship at the University of Colorado (CU). He worked summers at the Sacramento Peak Observatory (SPO) making solar observations for Grant Athay and John Jefferies, and in 1962 he completed his thesis, which analyzed center-to-limb variations of the Sun’s H-α, H-β, and H-γ emissions.

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