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John Raven Johnson
John Raven Johnson
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N.Y. Ithaca, University, Cornell Library, Kroch A
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. He spent two years abroad doing postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Charles Moreau at the Collège de France in Paris under a prestigious American Field Service Fellowship.
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This was difficult for his later junior colleagues whom he would, on rare occasions, ask to lecture for him. He would insist that they show him their own board cards before he would sign off on their lecturing.
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He had two instructors to run the laboratories and to teach one of the graduate courses, but he had to lecture in three courses for each semester. Johnson had a long, professional connection as chemical consultant with the Du Pont Company, where his old Illinois friend W
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RDX has a nasty habit of crystallizing in different polymorphic forms, at least one of which is extremely shock sensitive, making the explosive unusable. Johnson, in collaboration with his Cornell colleagues A
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Medal of Merit for his wartime service, and in 1945 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Jack Johnson returned to Cornell after the war and resumed his career of supervising the research of graduate students, teaching large organic chemistry classes, and consulting with the Du Pont Company.
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Robinson to write and edit the monograph Chemistry of Penicillin, which described the knowledge about penicillin developed during the war. Perhaps all chemists at some point in their lives dream that their research might help save a human life.
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Although he was cut off from formal research, he also kept busy with one of his original loves, organic laboratory instruction. Johnson drew on his encyclopedic knowledge of organic chemistry and his treasured personal copy of Beilstein to suggest interesting new experiments that were then perfected at a practical level back at Cornell.
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94 B I O G R A P H I C A L M E M O I R S grandchildren. Jack Johnson's Cornell colleagues and his many students and other friends remember him with admiration and affection as one of the important players in the development of Cornell into a great research university.
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Elementary Laboratory Experiments in Organic Chemistry. New York: Macmillan.
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Synthesis of odd-numbered keto dibasic acids and cor responding saturated acids.
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Sensitivity control during the purification of highly explosive crude cyclonite.
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