John G. White

Education White was educated at Brunel University, where he was awarded an undergraduate degree in Physics in 1969. at University of Cambridge in 1975 for work on computer-aided reconstruction of the nervous system of Caenorhabditis elegans supervised by Sydney Brenner. With collaborators Sydney Brenner, John Sulston and others, White co-developed confocal microscopy and mapped the complete nervous system of Caenorhabditis elegans, consisting of 302 neurons and over 7000 synapses. The study was published in 1986 by the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2005.

The Center for Quantitative Cell Imaging at the University of Wisconsin-Madison hosts a biennial seminar series named in honor of John White. Featured speakers have included:

2022: Martin Chalfie; Columbia University 2018: Cornelia Bargmann; Columbia University

Personal life White has been professor emeritus since he retired in 2008.