Obituary—Prof. Dr. John White (1937–2023)

With sadness, we regret to inform you about the passing of Prof. Dr. John White, Editorial Board Member of QuBS. We are grateful for his many contributions to the journal and the legacy his research has left.

Prof. Dr. John White was the President of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and President of the Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering. He held the Argonne Fellowship (University of Chicago) and was, for many years, a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. Between 1975 and 1981, he was director of the Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France. He was a founding member of the International Society for Science and Religion.

He has been awarded fellowships from the Royal Society of Chemistry (1982), the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (1986), the Australian Institute of Physics (1986), the Royal Society of London (1993) and the Australian Academy of Science (1991). He received the H. G. Smith Medal (1997), the Craig Medal (2005), the Leighton Medal (2005) and the AONSA Prize (2015).

He was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2001 and appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2016.

Without a doubt, he was a great inspiration to his colleagues and a great mentor to all his students. His passing creates a huge void not only in his department but also in our journal. His death is a significant loss to the academic community as well as to everyone close to him. We offer our deepest condolences to his family, friends and colleagues.