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== Life ==
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1937-1997
|Saul Herner
 
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|1923-2002
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Born in Scotland, Mrs. Herner was a physics honors graduate and was proficient in French, German, Spanish, Russian and Japanese and studied Latin and ancient Greek.  
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She worked at: Technical assistant science attache, British Embassy 1953-58; Executive Vice-Pres., Herner & Co. 1958-?
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Herner came to the United States in 1953. The following brief obituary appeared in the ASIS Bulletin in 1997: Mary Herner, who served as treasurer of ASIS in the late 60s and early 70s, passed away on March 9 in Fairfax, Virginia.
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|'''WORKED AT:'''
== Contributions ==
|U.S. Army, New York Public Library, NYU, '''[[Hernerorg.htm|Herner & Co.]]'''
With her husband Saul, in 1958 she founded Herner and Company, a specialized business in the fields of information systems, clearinghouses and databases. She retired as president of Herner in 1996. Over the years she supervised the company's abstracting, indexing and database projects and became an authority on nuclear medicine.
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|'''OTHER INFORMATION:'''
She was the author of 15 works published in technical journals.
|Research chemist, US Army Air Corps 1945-46; Chemical reference librarian, NY Public Library 1946-48; Engineering librarian, NYU 1948-50; Chief librarian, Applied Physics Library, Johns Hopkins University 1950-53; Head librarian plant group, Atlantic Research Corp. 1953-56; Pres., '''[[Hernerorg.htm|Herner & Co.]]''' 1956-?. An obituary of Saul Herner appeared in the Washington Post, Oct. 12, 2002, Metro Section, P. B06.
 
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Location #1: No information. In 1995 Saul Herner said he still had her papers; however, at the time of his death in 2002 no decision had been made on their disposition (or on the papers of Saul Herner and their joint company, Herner & Company).
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|Even though Mr. Herner had considerable papers relating to his professional work and the work of his company, Herner and Co., it has not been possible to determine the fate of these papers after his death in 2002.
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|'''Chemical Heritage Foundation'''
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|Oral history interview conducted by Robert V.Williams, 16 July 1997 for the CHF.
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Revision as of 19:04, 14 July 2023

Life

1937-1997

Address:

Email:

Born in Scotland, Mrs. Herner was a physics honors graduate and was proficient in French, German, Spanish, Russian and Japanese and studied Latin and ancient Greek.

She worked at: Technical assistant science attache, British Embassy 1953-58; Executive Vice-Pres., Herner & Co. 1958-?

Herner came to the United States in 1953. The following brief obituary appeared in the ASIS Bulletin in 1997: Mary Herner, who served as treasurer of ASIS in the late 60s and early 70s, passed away on March 9 in Fairfax, Virginia.

Contributions

With her husband Saul, in 1958 she founded Herner and Company, a specialized business in the fields of information systems, clearinghouses and databases. She retired as president of Herner in 1996. Over the years she supervised the company's abstracting, indexing and database projects and became an authority on nuclear medicine.

She was the author of 15 works published in technical journals.

Awards

Offices

Papers

Location #1: No information. In 1995 Saul Herner said he still had her papers; however, at the time of his death in 2002 no decision had been made on their disposition (or on the papers of Saul Herner and their joint company, Herner & Company).

Dates:

Size:

Includes:

Finding aid:

Source: Phone conversation with Saul Herner, 9/95.