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John William White CMG, FRS, FAA, FACI obtained his B.Sc. (Hons) and M.Sc. at the University of Sydney before going to Oxford on an 1851 Scholarship to study for his D.Phil. He was elected a Fellow in chemistry at St John's College, Oxford in 1973. John has been a pioneer in the use of neutrons, developing neutron contrast variation in structure determination. In the 1970s, he was Director of the Institut Laue Langevin in Grenoble, France. In 1985, he became Professor of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry in the Research School of Chemistry at the Australian National University in Canberra, a position he still holds. John is currently President of the Asia Oceania Neutron Scattering Association, AONSA.

Ailsa Barbara White (nee Vise) obtained her B.Sc. (Hons) and M.Sc. in microbiology at the University of Queensland before going to Oxford on a Walter and Eliza Hall Travelling Scholarship where she obtained a second M.Sc.. She married John in 1966 and, with their four children, went with him to Grenoble. In Canberra she spent 20 years in the Public Service, mostly in the Science Group of the Industry and Education Departments.