Scope and Contents From the Collection: Collection of letters, papers and paper proposals by chemistry and computer programming professionals from various countries on using Wiswesser Line Notation in chemical and pharmaceutical industries, 1965-1969. Some of the letters are written on “aeromail” specially printed stationaries as samples of artefacts of communication history. William Thompson and other scientific information professionals used WLN and collaborated on prjects. This collection contains sample documents of scholarly...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Collection of letters, papers and paper proposals by chemistry and computer programming professionals from various countries on using Wiswesser Line Notation in chemical and pharmaceutical industries, 1965-1969. Some of the letters are written on “aeromail” specially printed stationaries as samples of artefacts of communication history. William Thompson and other scientific information professionals used WLN and collaborated on prjects. This collection contains sample documents of scholarly...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Collection of letters, papers and paper proposals by chemistry and computer programming professionals from various countries on using Wiswesser Line Notation in chemical and pharmaceutical industries, 1965-1969. Some of the letters are written on “aeromail” specially printed stationaries as samples of artefacts of communication history. William Thompson and other scientific information professionals used WLN and collaborated on prjects. This collection contains sample documents of scholarly...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Collection of letters, papers and paper proposals by chemistry and computer programming professionals from various countries on using Wiswesser Line Notation in chemical and pharmaceutical industries, 1965-1969. Some of the letters are written on “aeromail” specially printed stationaries as samples of artefacts of communication history. William Thompson and other scientific information professionals used WLN and collaborated on prjects. This collection contains sample documents of scholarly...

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June 13, 1967 “What is a “Connectivity Table”?” June 15, 1967 from Bill to Wm B. Thompson re: return shipment of selected Notation cards from Binghamton, New York June 29, 1967 from William Thompson I.S. 481 [Master’s thesis proposal]

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July 11, 1967 from GAF [General Aniline & Film Corp] re: R. Narasimhan report July 19, 1967 from Wm. Thompson to Lucille Thomson re: Bill Wiswesser and Robert Taylor, thesis supervisor encourages visit July 28, 1967 “Computerization of Organic Structures” by L. Thomson [with diagramming and Charting Worksheet]

Scope and Contents September 11, 1967 from 33rd Conf. of FID and International Congress on Documentation to W. B. Thompson, F. R. Whaley, A. C. Starke, E. C. Carson Re: Japan Information Center of Science and Technology Document Storage: “Administrative Information for Technical Proposal for Computer Program for Chemical Structures Part A.,” Technical Proposal for Computer Program for Chemical Structures, Part B” September 14, 1967 [2nd letter re: above] September 20, 1967 from Univ. of Illinois to...

Scope and Contents January 31, 1968 from Bill Wiswesser to Matthew Hutton re: discussion with Jack Hayes and vastly improved “Recognition” clarity using full-character Set of ASCII/360 punctuations vs. present three for polycyclic notation February 1, 1968 “A Study of Mechanical Translation from WLN to Connection Table” by S. Kulpinski, N. London, D. Lefkovitz, A. Gennaro, presented at the Symposium on Automation of Information Operations, Philadelphia, Pa. February 6, 1968 from Bill Thompson to W. J....

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January 3, 1969 from William B. Thompson to Jack E. Byk re: letter of Dec. 17 - work referred to by Dr. Rogers is a thesis in Information Science at Lehigh January 27, 1969 from Bill Thompson to Lucille [Thomson] re: meeting Fred Matthews and Dr. Rogers February 11, 1969 from Wm J. Wiswesser to William B. Thompson re: coding Thesis in IBM D-level Subset of PH/1; “The Empty Column” March 21, 1969 from Bill Thompson to Dr. Robert Barnes re: linear structures and Branched structures

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May 1969 Journal of Chemical Documentation, Vo. 9, No. 2, p. 121 “Connection Table Compatibility” July 30, 1969 from Ron Gottardi to W. Thompson re: computerized handling of Chemical structures “octobliques” [3 page letter of explanation]; “Computerization of Organic Structures”