Laurence Bedford Heilprin

Laurence Bedford Heilprin (1906-1993) theorized information science.

Life

Laurence Bedford Heilprin was born in 1906. Major contribution according to Farkas-Conn was to set the stage for interest groups within ASIS; Worked under Clapp at the Council on Library Resources; Worked for Documentation Inc. (Taube's company); Prof., Univ. of Maryland; Along with Luhn, instrumental in bringing about ARIST; Cochrane, Bourne, and Cuadra were the driving force for ARIST. Heilprin served as a professor of math and physics at Northwestern University prior to coming to Maryland in 1967 and remained until his retirement in 1976; he was professor emeritus at the time of his death.

Contribution

Heilprin explored fundamental aspects of information science throughout his career and stimulated others to do research and attempt to discover the theoretical underpinnings of information science.

Offices

• American Documentation Institute. President, 1964-65

Awards

• American Documentation Institute. Award of Merit, 1976.

Further reading

• Roderer, Nancy. "In memoriam: Laurence B. Heilprin, 1906–1993." Journal of the American Society for Information Science 44, no 10 (Dec 1993): 555-556.
• Obituary. Washington Post July 24, 1993. [1]

Papers

• University of Maryland Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives, College Park, MD. Laurence Heilprin papers. Coll. 0290-UA [2]