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Samuel William Johnson

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Samuel William Johnson (July 3, 1830 – July 21, 1909) was an American agricultural chemist. He promoted the movement to bring the sciences to the aid of American farmers through agricultural experiment stations and education in agricultural science.

Johnson, working in the 19th century, covered various aspects of farming that today would be called both organic and nonorganic. His work included exposing frauds in artificial manures (some of which would today be called chemical fertilizers).

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Johnson was born in Kingsboro, New York, the son of Abner Adolphus Johnson and Annah Wells Gilbert.^[1] Johnson's first teacher was his father; later he studied with David Mayhew in a school at Lowville, New York. Early on he obtained a textbook on chemistry by Fresenius, in which he learned methods of analytical chemistry.

Gaining admission to Yale University, Johnson took lessons from John Pitkin Norton, Benjamin Silliman, Benjamin Silliman, Jr. and James Dwight Dana among others. Upon graduation he went to Leipzig, studying with Otto Linne Erdmann. The next year he went to Munich and Liebig's lab. He studied physiological chemistry with Max Joseph von Pettenkofer and Wolfgang Franz von Kobell. Returning through England, he visited the lab of Edward Frankland and the experimental farms of John Bennet Lawes and Joseph Henry Gilbert.

In 1855 Johnson had his translation of Liebig's The Relations of Chemistry to Agriculture and the Experiments of Mr. J. B. Laws published by Luther Tucker, editor of The Country Gentleman.^[2]

In 1858, he became a chemist for the Connecticut Agricultural Society, in which capacity he issued an important series of papers on commercial fertilizers and allied subjects. In 1866, he became a member of the Connecticut State Board of Agriculture. Also in 1866, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Johnson’s skill with analytical chemistry brought him the position of First Assistant at the Yale Analytical Lab in 1874. A year later he was made professor of analytical chemistry. The following year he was also named professor of Agricultural Chemistry. He regularly attended meetings of agricultural societies and farmers' clubs.

He was director of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station from 1877 to 1899. In 1878 Johnson was president of the American Chemical Society.

Johnson retired in 1896.

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He edited Fresenius' Quantitative Chemical Analysis (1864, 1875, 1883).

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Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Johnson, Samuel William" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
Johnson, Rossiter; Brown, John Howard, eds. (1906), The Biographical Dictionary of America, American Biographical Society.
Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Johnson, Samuel William" . Encyclopedia Americana.

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v t e Presidents of the American Chemical Society
1876–1900	John W. Draper (1876) J. Lawrence Smith (1877) Samuel William Johnson (1878) T. Sterry Hunt (1879) Frederick A. Genth (1880) Charles F. Chandler (1881) John W. Mallet (1882) James C. Booth (1883) Albert B. Prescott (1886) Charles Anthony Goessmann (1887) T. Sterry Hunt (1888) Charles F. Chandler (1889) Henry B. Nason (1890) George F. Barker (1891) George C. Caldwell (1892) Harvey W. Wiley (1893) Edgar Fahs Smith (1895) Charles B. Dudley (1896) Charles E. Munroe (1898) Edward W. Morley (1899) William McMurtrie (1900)
1901–1925	Frank W. Clarke (1901) Ira Remsen (1902) John H. Long (1903) Arthur Amos Noyes (1904) Francis P. Venable (1905) William F. Hillebrand (1906) Marston T. Bogert (1907) Willis R. Whitney (1909) Wilder D. Bancroft (1910) Alexander Smith (1911) Arthur Dehon Little (1912) Theodore W. Richards (1914) Charles H. Herty (1915) Julius Stieglitz (1917) William H. Nichols (1918) William A. Noyes (1920) Edgar Fahs Smith (1921) Edward C. Franklin (1923) Leo H. Baekeland (1924) James Flack Norris (1925)
1926–1950	George D. Rosengarten (1927) Samuel W. Parr (1928) Irving Langmuir (1929) William McPherson (1930) Moses Gomberg (1931) Lawrence V. Redman (1932) Arthur B. Lamb (1933) Charles L. Reese (1934) Roger Adams (1935) Edward Bartow (1936) Edward R. Weidlein (1937) Frank C. Whitmore (1938) Charles A. Kraus (1939) Samuel C. Lind (1940) William Lloyd Evans (1941) Harry N. Holmes (1942) Per K. Frolich (1943) Thomas Midgley Jr. (1944) Carl S. Marvel (1945) Bradley Dewey (1946) W. Albert Noyes Jr. (1947) Charles A. Thomas (1948) Linus Pauling (1949) Ernest H. Volwiler (1950)
1951–1975	N. Howell Funnan (1951) Edgar C. Britton (1952) Farrington Daniels (1953) Harry L. Fisher (1954) Joel H. Hildebrand (1955) John C. Warner (1956) Roger J. Williams (1957) Clifford F. Rassweiler (1958) John C. Bailar Jr. (1959) Albert L. Elder (1960) Arthur C. Cope (1961) Karl Folkers (1962) Henry Eyring (1963) Maurice H. Arveson (1964) Charles C. Price (1965) William J. Sparks (1966) Charles G. Overberger (1967) Robert W. Cairns (1968) Wallace R. Brode (1969) Byron Riegel (1970) Melvin Calvin (1971) Max Tishler (1972) Alan C. Nixon (1973) Bernard S. Friedman (1974) William J. Bailey (1975)
1976–2000	Glenn T. Seaborg (1976) Henry A. Hill (1977) Anna J. Harrison (1978) Gardner W. Stacy (1979) James D. D'Ianni (1980) Albert C. Zettlemoyer (1981) Robert W. Parry (1982) Fred Basolo (1983) Warren D. Niederhauser (1984) Ellis K. Fields (1985) George C. Pimentel (1986) Mary L. Good (1987) Gordon L. Nelson (1988) Clayton F. Callis (1989) Paul G. Gassman (1990) S. Allen Heininger (1991) Ernest L. Eliel (1992) Helen M. Free (1993) Ned D. Heindel (1994) Brian M. Rushton (1995) Ronald Breslow (1996) Paul S. Anderson (1997) Paul H.L. Walter (1998) Edel Wasserman (1999) Daryle H. Busch (2000)
2001–present	Attila E. Pavlath (2001) Eli M. Pearce (2002) Elsa Reichmanis (2003) Charles P. Casey (2004) William F. Carroll Jr. (2005) Elizabeth Ann Nalley (2006) Catherine T. Hunt (2007) Bruce E. Bursten (2008) Thomas H. Lane (2009) Joseph Francisco (2010) Nancy B. Jackson (2011) Bassam Z. Shakhashiri (2012) Marinda Li Wu (2013) Thomas J. Barton (2014) Diane Grob Schmidt (2015) Donna J. Nelson (2016) Allison A. Campbell (2017) Peter K. Dorhout (2018) Bonnie A. Charpentier (2019) Luis Echegoyen (2020) H.N. Cheng (2021) Angela K. Wilson (2022) Judith Giordan (2023) Mary K. Carroll (2024) Dorothy J. Phillips, President Elect (2025)

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