Madeline M. (Berry) Henderson

Madeline M. (Berry) Henderson (1922-2011) was an American information services specialist.

Madeline M. (Berry) Henderson

Life

Madeline M. Henderson was born as Madeline Berry on September 3, 1922 in Merrimac, Massachusetts.

She died on July 17, 2011.

Chemist, E.I. DuPont, 1944-45; researcher, C.S. Batchelder Co., 1945-46; research associate, MIT, 1946-52; consultant, 1953; Battelle Labs, 1953-56; research analyst, National Science Foundation, Office of Science Information Service, 1956-62; analyst, National Bureau of Standards, 1964-79; independent consultant, 1979-91.

A fairly complete biography of Henderson appears in the following source: She died

Publications

• Punched cards: Their applications to science and industry. 2nd ed. Ed. with R. S. Casey, J. W. Perry & A. Kent. New York: Reinhold.

Offices

• American Association for the Advancement of Science. Secretary, 1978.

Awards

• American Society for Information Science. Watson Davis Award, 1989.
• American Institute of Chemists. Fellow.
• American Association for the Advancement of Science. Fellow,
• American Library Association. Joseph W. Lippincott Award, 2004.

Science History Institute (online)

Further reading

• Williams, R. V. "Madeline M. Henderson: From chemical information science pioneer to architect of the new information science." Libraries and the Cultural Record 45, no 2 (2010): 167-184.

• Dates: 1997
• Size: 82 pages
• Includes: Oral history interview
• Source: Science History Institute website: [1]

Further reading

• A brief obituary is available at [2]