1. Kenneth T. Whitby Award American Association for Aerosol Research

2. Ken Whitby was born in Fond du Lac Wisconsin in 1925, the oldest of five children. Fascination with airplanes and model airplane building sparked his creative engineering mind. From the beginning he built planes from scratch, and designed his own airplanes. His education started in a 1-room school and led eventually to the University of Minnesota. Friends said of Ken that he wanted to know the truth about everything, whether about science or life.

3. Ken Whitby will be remembered for …  Developing the multimodal model for aerosols  Developing electrical aerosol size measuring instrumentation for submicrometer particles  Developing and training a core group of aerosol scientists and engineers  Establishing the Particle Technology Laboratory at the University of Minnesota  Influencing TSI to enter the commercial aerosol instrument business  Promoting the powerful iterative aerosol science process of  Instrument development,  Laboratory experiments,  Field measurements, and  Model development  His pragmatic engineering approach to aerosol science and technology

4. The Kenneth T. Whitby Award “recognizes outstanding technical contributions aerosol science and technology by a young scientist. The purpose of the award is to encourage continued work in the field and ongoing support of such endeavors”. The award memorializes Kenneth T. Whitby, known for his contributions to aerosol measurement, the study of aerosol properties and behavior, and the nature of atmospheric aerosols.

5. 2005 Recipient of the Kenneth T. Whitby Award Da-Ren Chen Asst. Prof. in Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Joint Program in Environmental Engineering Science, Washington University “Dr. Chen played a key role in the development of the Nano-DMA, …used worldwide for measuring size distributions of particles as small as 3 nm.” “He has further developed the mobility classification technique to enable faster scanning.” “developed an electrospray generator capable of generating monodisperse droplets with diameters as small as 40 nm.”