Up for auction "Organoboranes" John R. Johnson Hand Signed First Day Cover Dated 1962. 

ES-6323E

John Raven Johnson (August 9, 1900 –

May 25, 1983) was an American chemist. Johnson was notable, among other things, for the

discovery of the nearly quantitative oxidation of organoboranes to alcohols by alkaline hydrogen peroxide. Johnson was Todd Professor Emeritus of

Chemistry at Cornell University, a

member of the National Academy of

Sciences, chair of the Cornell Department of Chemistry.