John Harper Long

John Harper Long (born December 26, 1856 in Steubenville / Ohio , † June 14, 1918 in Evanston / Illinois ) was an American chemist.

Long graduated from the University of Kansas (BS 1877). He continued his studies in Tübingen (Dr. rer. Nat. 1879), Breslau and Würzburg. In 1880 he became a lecturer at Wesleyan University , the following year professor of chemistry at Northwestern University . In 1913 he became dean of the university's School of Pharmacology .

In 1883, Long became director of chemical studies for the Illinois State Board of Health . He also served as a scientific advisor to the US Department of Agriculture , a member of the Audit Committee of the US Pharmacopoeia and the Council of Pharmacology and Chemistry of the American Medical Association . He was a member of the German Chemical Society of the Society of Biological Chemists , the Washington Academy of Science and the American Association for the Advancement of Science , of which he became president in 1901; he was also President of the American Chemical Society since 1903 .

Long worked in the field of analytical, organic and physiological chemistry as well as diffusion processes and electrical conductivity of saline solutions. He wrote a textbook on physiological chemistry.

John Harper Long married his former student Catherine Bell Stoneman in 1885, with whom he had five children, including the future biochemist and pathologist Esmond R. Long .

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Rudolf Werner Soukup and Andreas Schober: "A library as eloquent witness to a comprehensive change in the scientific worldview; Part I: The authors of the works in the Robert Wilhelm Bunsen library in short biographies" , pp. 254–55
"The Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry", July 1918 p. 583 doi : 10.1021 / ie50103a034
"The Journal of the American Medical Association" Vol 70 No 25, June 22, 1918

Individual evidence

↑ Chantal Liu: Alumni News: NU Family Close-up, A Long Family Tradition. Northwestern, Spring 2001. Retrieved July 25, 2014.
^ Peter C. Nowell, Louis B. Delpino: Esmond R. Long 1890-1979: A Biographical Memoir. In: Biographical Memoirs. Vol. 56, 1987, pp. 284-311, here p. 285.

personal data
SURNAME	Long, John Harper
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 26, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH	Steubenville
DATE OF DEATH	June 14, 1918
Place of death	Evanston (Illinois)

[1] Chantal Liu: Alumni News: NU Family Close-up, A Long Family Tradition. Northwestern, Spring 2001. Retrieved July 25, 2014.

[2] Peter C. Nowell, Louis B. Delpino: Esmond R. Long 1890-1979: A Biographical Memoir. In: Biographical Memoirs. Vol. 56, 1987, pp. 284-311, here p. 285.