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5/10/99

SLU PROF'S LECTURE TO DETAIL CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN SCIENTISTS

CANTON - Priest Associate Professor of Physics Karen E. Johnson will give 
the Friends of Owen D. Young and Launders Libraries Commencement Lecture, 
titled "Reading Other People's Mail: What I Found In The Archives."
	The lecture will be given on Saturday, May 22, at 1 p.m. in Herring-Cole. 
It is open to the public, free of charge.
	Johnson, a historian of science, is at work on a biography of two 
scientists who were married to each other: chemist Joseph Mayer and physics Nobel 
Laureate Maria Goeppert Mayer. Describing her research and the lecture, Johnson 
says, "I have been faced with the task of creating a picture of two very real 
people and the relationship they shared, as well as deciphering the origins of 
their scientific ideas. The standard biographical information leaves many gaps. 
I have been able to fill in those gaps by examining a variety of correspondence, 
both personal and scientific."
	A member of the St. Lawrence faculty since 1988, Johnson holds a bachelor's 
degree from Grinnell College and a master's degree and Ph.D. from the University 
of Minnesota. She was appointed to the Henry Priest chair in physics in 1995.
	The Friends of the Libraries Commencement Lecture is given annually 
during Commencement weekend at St. Lawrence.

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