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Call Number: SC0530
Creator:
Johnson, William S., 1913-
Title: William S. Johnson papers
Dates: 1940-1992
Physical Description:
60 Linear feet
Summary: Papers document his teaching and research activities and include
notebooks, research reports, subject files, correspondence, grant files, reprints, and
slides.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Gift of the estate of William S. Johnson, 1997.
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is
given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not
intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission
must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of
digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
William S. Johnson Papers (SC0530). Department of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Johnson, professor of chemistry at Stanford University, was generally regarded as one of
the major figures in 20th-century organic chemistry. He served as head of Stanford's
chemistry department from 1960 to 1969, and after resigning that post, was appointed the
Jackson-Wood Professor of Chemistry which he held until he became emeritus in 1978. He
died in 1995.
Papers document his teaching and research activities and include notebooks, research
reports, subject files, correspondence, grant files, reprints, and slides.
Johnson, William S.
Stanford University. Dept. of Chemistry
--Faculty.
Chemistry--Study and teaching.
Chemistry, Organic.