Background
Johnson, Bruce Connor was born on April 28, 1911 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Son of Wilfred Connor and Edna Pearl (Young) Johnson. came to the United States, 1937.
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Johnson, Bruce Connor was born on April 28, 1911 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Son of Wilfred Connor and Edna Pearl (Young) Johnson. came to the United States, 1937.
Bachelor in Chemistry, McMaster University, 1933. Master of Arts in Chemistry, McMaster University, 1934. Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry, University Wisconsin, 1940.
Chemist Canada Canners, Hamilton, Ontario, 1934-1937. DuPont fellow University Illinois, Urbana, 1940-1942. Research biochemist Golden State Company, San Francisco, 1942-1943.
From assistant professor to associate professor University Illinois, Urbana, 1943-1951, professor biochemistry, 1951-1965. Professor, head department biochemistry and molecular biology University Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, 1965-1979, professor, 1979-1982, professor emeritus, since 1982. Distinguished career scientist Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, since 1982.
Research scientist Institute de Chimie Biologique, University Strasbourg, France, 1971. Member, head biochemistry section Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, 1966-1973, head vitamins and nutrition research, 1973-1981. Research scientist department pediatrics College Medicine, University South Florida, St. Petersburg, 1985-1987.
Member nutrition study section National Institutes of Health, 1962-1966. Consultant Canada Science Service, Winnipeg, Manitoba and Ottawa, Canada, 1952, 64, Armour & C., Center Research Laboratories, Chicago, 1957-1963, Agricultural Research Council, Federation Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1962, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, 1975, others. Official United States delegate President Eisenhower's 2d Atoms for Peace Mission to South America, 1956, 2d United Nations Atoms for Peace Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, 1958, United States Air Force, Department of Defense Symposium on Arctic Biology and Medicine, Fairbanks, Alaska, 1965, White House Conference on Food and Nutrition, Washington, 1969, others.
Invited participant to numerous symposia including Gordon Conference on Vitamins & Metabolism, New London, New Hampshire, 1956, Workshop on Vitamin K Function, International Nutrition Congress, San Diego, 1981, International Conference on Post-Translational Covalent Modification of Proteins for Function, Oklahoma City, 1982. United States State Department delegate Organization of European Economic Cooperation-Paris, 1958, The Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization, Jakarta, Indonesia, 1974.
President 1st Unitarian Church Oklahoma City, 1972, Alliance Française d'Oklahoma City, 1980. Fellow: American Society Nutrititional Sciences. Member: Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, Am.Chem.
Society, American Society Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bio-chemical Society (Great Britain), Endocrine Society, International Haemostasis and Thrombosis Society, American Association Medical Colleges, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Married Elizabeth Marie Peterson, September 1, 1940 (divorced). Children: Bruce Connor II, Peter Young, Stephen Paine, Elizabeth Carter (deceased), Christina Marie. Married Halina Victoria Bogdanska, October 25, 1966.
1 child, Margaret Edna.
