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|death_place       = Columbus, Ohio
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|alma_mater        = [[University of California, Berkeley]]
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|doctoral_advisor  = [[William F. Giauque]]
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|workplaces        = [[Ohio State University]]
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|prizes           = [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] (1933)
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'''Herrick Lee Johnston''' (March 29, 1898 – October 6, 1965) was an American chemist, best known for his work in [[cryogenics]].
 
'''Herrick Lee Johnston''' (March 29, 1898 – October 6, 1965) was an American chemist, best known for his work in [[cryogenics]].
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Johnston was born on March&nbsp;29, 1898 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the sixth child of Rev.&nbsp;Edgar Francis Johnston and Adlelide Sarah Simpson.<ref>{{citation | webpage = Dr Herrick Lee JOHNSTON | url = http://www.ewbarnard.com/public/dr_herrick_lee_johnston.html | website = The Barnard family story, from Connecticut and Massachusetts to Armstrong County Pennsylvania | publisher = ewbarnard.com | accessdate = 2011-03-25}}.</ref>
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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".<ref>{{citation | editor1-first = Callie | editor1-last = Hull | editor2-first = Clarence J. | editor2-last = West | title = Doctorates Conferred in the Sciences by American Universities 1928–1929 | series = Reprint and Circular Series of the National Research Council | volume = 91 | page = 11 |url = http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=9562&page=11}}.</ref>
  
 
==Notes and references==
 
==Notes and references==
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==Selected writings==
 
==Selected writings==
*{{citation | first = Herrick L. | last = Johnston | authorlink = Herrick L. Johnston | title = A Periodic Arrangement of the Atomic Nuclei. The Prediction of Isotopes | journal = J. Am. Chem. Soc. | year = 1931 | volume = 53 | issue = 8 | pages = 2866–71 | doi = 10.1021/ja01359a004}}
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*{{citation | first = Herrick L. | last = Johnston | authorlink = Herrick L. Johnston | title = A Periodic Arrangement of the Atomic Nuclei. The Prediction of Isotopes | journal = J. Am. Chem. Soc. | year = 1931 | volume = 53 | issue = 8 | pages = 2866–71 | doi = 10.1021/ja01359a004}}.
*{{citation | first1 = Clyde O. | last1 = Davis | first2 = Herrick L. | last2 = Johnston | authorlink2 = Herrick L. Johnston | title = Fractionation of the Hydrogen Isotopes by the Addition of Sodium to Water | journal = J. Am. Chem. Soc. | year = 1934 | volume = 56 | issue = 2 | pages = 492–93 | doi = 10.1021/ja01317a510}}
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*{{citation | first1 = Clyde O. | last1 = Davis | first2 = Herrick L. | last2 = Johnston | authorlink2 = Herrick L. Johnston | title = Fractionation of the Hydrogen Isotopes by the Addition of Sodium to Water | journal = J. Am. Chem. Soc. | year = 1934 | volume = 56 | issue = 2 | pages = 492–93 | doi = 10.1021/ja01317a510}}.
*{{citation | first = Herrick L. | last = Johnston | authorlink = Herrick L. Johnston | title = The Preparation of Deuterium-Free Water. Deuterium Content of Ordinary Water and the Atomic Weight of Hydrogen. Electrolytic Separation of the Oxygen Isotopes | J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1935, 57 (3), pp 484–86
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*{{citation | first = Herrick L. | last = Johnston | authorlink = Herrick L. Johnston | title = The Preparation of Deuterium-Free Water. Deuterium Content of Ordinary Water and the Atomic Weight of Hydrogen. Electrolytic Separation of the Oxygen Isotopes | journal = J. Am. Chem. Soc. | year = 1935 | volume = 57 | issue = 3 | pages = 484–86 | doi = 10.1021/ja01306a027}}.
DOI: 10.1021/ja01306a027}}
 
 
*{{citation | first1 = W. Heinlen | last1 = Hall | authorlink1 = W. Heinlen Hall | first2 = Herrick L. | last2 = Johnston | authorlink2 = Herrick L. Johnston | title = Concentration of the Heavier Isotopes of Oxygen in Commercial Electrolytic Cells | journal = J. Am. Chem. Soc. | year = 1935 | volume = 57 | issue = 9 | pages = 1515–17 | doi =  10.1021/ja01312a001}}.
 
*{{citation | first1 = W. Heinlen | last1 = Hall | authorlink1 = W. Heinlen Hall | first2 = Herrick L. | last2 = Johnston | authorlink2 = Herrick L. Johnston | title = Concentration of the Heavier Isotopes of Oxygen in Commercial Electrolytic Cells | journal = J. Am. Chem. Soc. | year = 1935 | volume = 57 | issue = 9 | pages = 1515–17 | doi =  10.1021/ja01312a001}}.
 
*{{citation | first1 = W. Heinlen | last1 = Hall | authorlink1 = W. Heinlen Hall | first2 = Herrick L. | last2 = Johnston | authorlink2 = Herrick L. Johnston | title = Influence of Combustion Conditions on the Density of Water Formed from Commercial Hydrogen and Oxygen | journal = J. Am. Chem. Soc. | year = 1936 | volume = 58 | issue = 10 | pages = 1920–22 | doi = 10.1021/ja01301a025}}.
 
*{{citation | first1 = W. Heinlen | last1 = Hall | authorlink1 = W. Heinlen Hall | first2 = Herrick L. | last2 = Johnston | authorlink2 = Herrick L. Johnston | title = Influence of Combustion Conditions on the Density of Water Formed from Commercial Hydrogen and Oxygen | journal = J. Am. Chem. Soc. | year = 1936 | volume = 58 | issue = 10 | pages = 1920–22 | doi = 10.1021/ja01301a025}}.
*{{Status of the Values of the Fundamental Constants for Physical Chemistry as of July 1, 19511
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*{{citation | first1 = Frederick D. | last1 = Rossini | authorlink1 = Frederick D. Rossini | first2 = Frank T., Jr. | last2 = Gucker | first3 = Herrick L. | last3 = Johnston | authorlink3 = Herrick L. Johnston | first4 = Linus | last4 = Pauling | authorlink4 = Linus Pauling | first5 = George W. | last5 = Vinal | title = Status of the Values of the Fundamental Constants for Physical Chemistry as of July 1, 1951 | journal = J. Am. Chem. Soc. | year = 1952 | volume = 74 | issue = 11 | pages = 2699–2701 | doi = 10.1021/ja01131a001}}.
Frederick D. Rossini, Frank T. Gucker Jr., Herrick L. Johnston, Linus Pauling, George W. Vinal
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*{{citation | first1 = Clarence M. | last1 = Cunningham | first2 = Herrick L. | last2 = Johnston | authorlink2 = Herrick L. Johnston | title = The Surface Catalysis of the Ortho- to Para-Conversion in Liquid Hydrogen by Paramagnetic Oxides on Alumina | journal = J. Am. Chem. Soc. | year = 1958 | volume = 80 | issue = 10 | pages = 2377–82 | doi = 10.1021/ja01543a009}}.
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1952, 74 (11), pp 2699–2701
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*{{citation | first1 = Clarence M. | last1 = Cunningham | first2 = Douglas S. | last2 = Chapin | first3 = Herrick L. | last3 = Johnston | authorlink3 = Herrick L. Johnston | title = Separation of Orthohydrogen from Parahydrogen and of Paradeuterium from Orthodeuterium by Preferential Adsorption | journal = J. Am. Chem. Soc. | year = 1958 | volume = 80 | issue = 10 | pages = 2382–84 | doi = 10.1021/ja01543a010}}.
Publication Date: June 1952 (Article)
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*{{citation | first1 = David | last1 = White | first2 = Jih-Heng | last2 = Hu | first3 = Herrick L. | last3 = Johnston | authorlink3 = Herrick L. Johnston | title = The Heats of Vaporization of Para-hydrogen and Ortho-deuterium from their Boiling Points to their Critical Temperatures | journal = J. Phys. Chem. | year = 1959 | volume = 63 | issue = 7 | pages = 1181–83 | doi = 10.1021/j150577a038}}.
DOI: 10.1021/ja01131a001}}
 
*{{citation | Clarence M. Cunningham, Herrick L. Johnston | The Surface Catalysis of the Ortho- to Para-Conversion in Liquid Hydrogen by Paramagnetic Oxides on Alumina
 
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1958, 80 (10), pp 2377–82
 
DOI: 10.1021/ja01543a009}}
 
*{{citation | Clarence M. Cunningham, Douglas S. Chapin, Herrick L. Johnston | Separation of Orthohydrogen from Parahydrogen and of Paradeuterium from Orthodeuterium by Preferential Adsorption
 
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1958, 80 (10), pp 2382–84
 
DOI: 10.1021/ja01543a010}}
 
*{{citation | David White, Jih-Heng Hu, Herrick L. Johnston | The Heats of Vaporization of Para-hydrogen and Ortho-deuterium from their Boiling Points to their Critical Temperatures
 
J. Phys. Chem., 1959, 63 (7), pp 1181–83
 
DOI: 10.1021/j150577a038}}
 
  
 
==External links==
 
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*[http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4404/ch2-2.htm The Cryogenics Laboratory at Ohio State University]
 
*[http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4404/ch2-2.htm The Cryogenics Laboratory at Ohio State University]
  
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Latest revision as of 17:58, 27 March 2011

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]

Notes and references

Notes

References

  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>.

Selected writings

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