Charles L. White was professor of polymer engineering at the University of Akron.

White stuided chemical engineering at the Brooklyn Polytechnical institute and then joioned the research group of Prof. A. B. Metzner at the University of Delaware, where he recieved his M.A. in 1962 and doctorate in 1965.

From 1963-1967 White was a research engineer and group leader at U.S. Rubber (later Uniroyal). He then joined the faculty ath the University of Tennessee where he originated and became the professor in charge of the Polymer and Engineering graduate program. At Tennessee he founded the Journal of Polymer Engineering.

In 1983 White moved ot Akron where he founded the Institute nad Department of Polymer engineering. In 1985 he started the Polymer Processing Society and the journal International Polymer Processing which he edited until 2004.

white researc hareas include rubber processing and compounding, including the dlow in internal mixers and pin barrel extruders and twin screw extruders with and without chemical reactions. This work led to the first commerically successful Akro-Twin software to stimulate flow in twin-screw extrusion.

He was the author of Rubber Processing and seven other books, as well as over 500 techincal papers. White received the Charles Goodyear medal from the Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society in 2009.

Source:

Meyer, Bruce. "Charles Goodyear medalist White dies at 71," Rubber & Plastics News (Dec 14, 2009), 5.