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Mary Anne White is a Canadian materials scientist who is the Harry Shirreff (Emerita) Professor of Chemical Research at Dalhousie University. Her research considers novel solar thermal materials and their application in renewable energy devices.
Born in 1953 in London, Ontario, White earned her BSc in chemistry from the University of Western Ontario. She completed graduate studies at McMaster University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford and the University of Waterloo. After beginning her academic career as an assistant professor at the University of Waterloo, in 1983 she joined Dalhousie, where she served as Professor of Chemistry and Physics and Director of the Institute for Research in Materials. In 2010, she established the Dalhousie Research in Energy, Advanced Materials and Sustainability (DREAMS) program. She was made Harry Shirreff Professor of Chemical Research Emerita in 2016.
Mary Anne White is the recipient of many awards and honours, including honorary doctorates from McMaster, Western and the University of Ottawa. She was appointed an Officer to the Order of Canada in 2016. She was also a regular contributor to the CBC Radio program Maritime Noon, answering listener science questions. She is married to Robert L. White, a biological chemist at Dalhousie University, with whom she has two children.