White, Robert M., 1923-2015

found: Commissioning of the NOAA ship Researcher OSS-O3, Miami, Florida, October 8, 1970, 1970:title frame (Robert M. White)

found: American men and women of science, 17th ed., v. 7, p. 591(White, Robert M., b. Boston, Mass., Feb. 13, 1923)

found: Washington post WWW site, viewed Oct. 16, 2015(Robert M. White, a meteorologist who served as the nation's top weatherman, died Oct. 14 [2015] at his home in Chevy Chase, Md.; he was 92; Dr. White was president of Travelers Research Center in Hartford, Conn., a weather-monitoring organization established by Travelers insurance company, when President John F. Kennedy named him director of the U.S. Weather Bureau in 1963; in 1970, that organization became the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which Dr. White led before stepping down in 1977; from 1983 to 1995, he was president of the National Academy of Engineering; Robert Mayer White was born in Boston on Feb. 13, 1923; studied meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving a master's degree in 1949 and a doctoral degree in 1950)

found: The technological fix, 2004, via WWW, Oct. 16, 2015:p. 194 (Robert M. White; head of the Air Force Cambridge Research Center's Meteorology Development Lab from 1952 to 1959; chief of the Weather Bureau, first director of ESSA (Environmental Science Services Administration), then NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and "meteorological czar" of the interagency Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research)