NAME: Helen Louise Brownson
DATES: 1929-
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WORKED AT: NSF; Office of Scientific Information
OTHER INFORMATION: Originally a secretary to Bush at MIT; Program director, NSF; Cleverdon called her "the major influence on documentation research" in the 1950's because of her oversight of dozens of projects;" Preceded Burt Adkinson at NSF, set funding pattern; Began her career helping disseminate OSRD reports to science-technology users; Co-founder of ARIST.
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A CAREER MEMORY FROM HELEN BROWNSON

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