Herrick L. Johnston

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Herrick L. Johnston
Born March 29, 1898(1898-03-29)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Died October 6, 1965 (aged 67)
Columbus, Ohio
Fields cryogenics
Institutions Ohio State University
Alma mater University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisor William F. Giauque
Doctoral students W. Heinlen Hall
Paul J. Flory
Known for isotopes of oxygen
liquid hydrogen
Notable awards Guggenheim Fellowship (1933)
Spouse Margaret Vanderbilt (1901–1996, m. 1923)

Herrick Lee Johnston (March 29, 1898 – October 6, 1965) was an American chemist, best known for his work in cryogenics.

Johnston was born on March 29, 1898 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the sixth child of Rev. Edgar Francis Johnston and Adlelide Sarah Simpson.[1]

He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1928 with a thesis on "The entropies of nitric oxide and oxygen at low temperature as bearing on the third law of thermodynamics".[2]

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  1. Dr Herrick Lee JOHNSTON, <http://www.ewbarnard.com/public/dr_herrick_lee_johnston.html> (accessed 25 March 2011), The Barnard family story, from Connecticut and Massachusetts to Armstrong County Pennsylvania; ewbarnard.com.
  2. Doctorates Conferred in the Sciences by American Universities 1928–1929; Hull, Callie; West, Clarence J., Eds.; Reprint and Circular Series of the National Research Council; Vol. 91, p 11, <http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=9562&page=11>.

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