Kenneth T' Whitby Award

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

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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.
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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
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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.
The Kenneth T. Whitby Awardrecognizes
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.
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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.