Helen Louise Brownson

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Helen Louise Brownson ( May 1, 1917 - August 5, 2017 ) was an American documentary writer . She is considered a pioneer in information science .

Life

From 1942 to 1946 Brownson worked for the Office of Scientific Research and Development , then from 1946 to 1951 at the Research and Development Board of the United States Department of Defense , both headed by Vannevar Bush .

Then Brownson was employed from 1951 to 1966 in the National Science Foundation (NSF), where she worked from 1958 as program director for the Office of Scientific Information . Her successor at NSF was Burt Adkinson . Until her retirement in 1970, she worked in the research department of the American intelligence service Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

She co-founded the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST).

Works (selection)

  • Brownson, Helen L .: Survey of operations and finances of scientific journals . In: Science . tape 119 , no. 3090 , 1954, pp. 357-359 . DOI: 10.1126 / science.119.3090.357
  • Brownson, Helen L .: Research on Handling Scientific Information . In: Science . tape 132 , no. 3444 , 1960, pp. 1922-1931 . DOI: 10.1126 / science.132.3444.1922
  • Brownson, Helen L .: Evaluation of document searching systems and procedures . In: Journal of Documentation . tape 21 , no. 4 , 1965, pp. 261-266 .

Web links

literature

  • Laurie J. Bonnici, Jonathan Furner, Alexander Justice, Kathryn La Barre, Shawne D. Miksa, Helen Plant: Pioneering women in information science . Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology; 40, no. 1 , 2003, p. 425-426 . Available online: doi: 10.1108 / eb026375

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry at findagrave.com , accessed on August 7, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Brownson, Helen Louise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brownson, Helen L .; Brownson, Helen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American information scientist
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1917
DATE OF DEATH 5th August 2017