Background
Erdman, John Gordon was born on April 12, 1919 in Baltimore. Son of John Matthew and Margaret Adele (Hollmann) Erdman.
Erdman, John Gordon was born on April 12, 1919 in Baltimore. Son of John Matthew and Margaret Adele (Hollmann) Erdman.
Bachelor, Johns Hopkins University, 1940. Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 1943.
Research chemist National Defense Research Committee, Baltimore, 1943-1945. Petroleum fellow Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, 1945-1956, senior fellow, 1956-1965. Manager geochemistry branch Phillips Petroleum Company, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, 1965-1974, senior scientist, 1974-1984.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (committee for Interciencia), American Institute for Chemists (emeritus, president Pittsburgh chapter 1962-1964), The Geological Society of America, Sigma Xi. Member American Petroleum Institute (chairman project advisory committee), National Academy of Sciences (American Petroleum Council advisory panel Organic Geochemistry), American Association Petroleum Geologists, Geochem. Society (chairman Organic Geochemistry division 1964-1965, chairman 1965-1966, counselor 1969-1972), American Chemical Society (division petroleum chemistry, wood and fibre chemistry), American Geophysical Union (corporation rept.), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (corporation representative), Lamont -Doherty Geological Observatory (corporation representative), Scripps Institution Oceanography (corporation representative), Marine Science Institute University Texas (corporation representative), Tulsa Geological Society, European Association Organic Chemists, Johns Hopkins Alumni Association (vice president Pittsburgh chapter 1960-1961, President Pittsburgh chapter 1961-1962), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Arline Juanita Calhoun, April 12, 1948.