Herman Skolnik
1914-1994
Employment
- Hercules,Inc.
- Chemical Abstracts Service
Contributions
Skolnik was editor: Journal of Chemical Documentation and Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Science, 1960-82? (title change 1975). He worked at: Hercules Inc.: Research chemist 1942-45; Supervisor literary research 1946-51; Manager Technical Information division 1952-80; Consultant 1980-?. He introduced notation systems: with Clow in 1964; his own 1969.
He developed a formulated index in 1958 which cited elements in alphabetical order by their symbols with carbon and hydrogen last. He was interested in chemical documentation, history of science, terpenes, heterocyclics, and azeotropy. He won the Patterson-Crane award for contributions to the field of chemical literature, especially the documentation of chemistry.
A detailed memorial essay on him appears at: http://www.acscinf.org/content/memoriam-herman-skolnik-1914-1994
Awards
- 1969 Patterson Award (ACS)
- 1976 Skolnik Award (ACS-named this for him) for being founder and editor of the Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, inventor of a notation system
- Indexing innovator
- Organizer of symposia nationally
Offices
- ACS: Division of Chemical Information Chairman 1961
- DE Section Chairman 1962