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4/22/02

KAREN JOHNSON IS CHOSEN PISKOR LECTURER AT SLU

CANTON - St. Lawrence University Priest Associate Professor 
of Physics Karen Johnson has been named the Frank P. Piskor 
Faculty Lecturer for 2003. Next spring, Johnson will deliver 
a lecture on campus on the topic "Spontaneous Human 
Collaboration: Using Disciplinary Thinking to Study 
Interdisciplinary Work."
	In the lecture, Johnson will examine the differences 
in the ways physics and chemistry approached problems in the 
l930s and 1940s, as a way to analyze the interdisciplinary 
nature of the work of Maria Goeppert Mayer, a physicist, and 
her husband, Joseph Mayer, a chemist.
	The Piskor Faculty Lectureship was established in 
1979 to encourage original and continued research among 
St. Lawrence faculty members, to recognize and honor 
distinguished scholarship and to afford the opportunity for 
faculty to share their learning with the academic community.
	Johnson, a historian of science, is at work on a 
biography of the Mayers. She has been 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.

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