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. An obituary is available at [1]

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. [2]

Papers

LOCATION #1: University of Maryland University Libraries (College Park, MD) [3]