Dr. Sean François Johnston

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

Carnegie Trust: At the Fringes: Optical Sciences in the 20th C, 2007 to 2008.
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC): The Nuclear Engineer: Shaping A Profession, 2007 to 2011.
Royal Society: Conference travel grant, 2005 to 2005.
British Academy: Holography and Holographers, 2002 to 2005.
Carnegie Trust: Holography and Holographers, 2002 to 2006.
American Institute of Physics Center for the History of Physics: Oral histories of holographers, 2002 to 2007.
Shearwater Foundation: Art Holographers and Holography, 2002 to 2007.
Institution of Chemical Engineers: History of British chemical engineering, 1996 to 1999.

• S. F. Johnston (2009) Creating a Canadian profession: nuclear engineers c1940-1968, Canadian Journal of History, 44 (3), In Press
• S. F. Johnston (2009) The telephone in Scotland In Kenneth Veitch (eds), Scottish Life and Society: A Compendium of Scottish Ethnology, Vol 8: Transport, Communications and the Media, East Lothian, John Donald (bookchapter)
• Sean F. Johnston (2009) Der parallaktische Blick In Stefan Rieger & Jens Schroter (eds), Das Holographische Wissen, Dortmund, Diaphanes, 33-57 pages, ISBN=9783037340741 (bookchapter)
• JOHNSTON, Sean F. (2009) The History of Science: A Beginner's Guide, Oxford, OneWorld, 272 pages, ISBN=9781851686810
• Johnston, S. F. (2009) Implanting a discipline: the academic trajectory of nuclear engineering in USA and UK, Minerva, 47 (1), 51-73
• Johnston, S. F. (2008) A cultural history of the hologram, Leonardo, 41 (3), 223-229
• Johnston, S. F. (2008) 'A historian's view of holography' In H. J. Caulfield and C. Vikram (eds), New Directions in Holography and Speckle, American Scientific Publishers, ISBN=1588831019 (bookchapter)
• Johnston, S. F. (2007) 'Gerhard Herzberg', New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Farmington Hills, MI, Charles Scribner's Sons (bookchapter)
• S. F. Johnston (2006) Physics in Glasgow: A heritage tour, Physics in Perspective, 8 (4), 451-465
• Johnston, S. F. (2006) 'Absorbing new technologies: holography as an analog of photography', Physics in Perspective, 8, 164-188
• JOHNSTON, Sean F. (Apr 2006) Holographic Visions: A History of New Science, Oxford, Oxford University Press
• Johnston, S. F. (2005) 'From White Elephant to Nobel Prize: Dennis Gabor's Wavefront Reconstruction', Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 36, 35-70
• Johnston, S. F. (2005) 'Attributions of scientific and technical progress: the case of holography, History and Technology, 21 (4), 367-392
• JOHNSTON, Sean F., Hill, Carol (Jul 2005) Below the Belt: the Founding of a Higher Education Institution, Dumfries, University of Glasgow Crichton Publications
• Johnston S.F. (2005) Shifting perspectives: Holography and the emergence of technical communities, Technology and Culture, 46 (1), 77-103
• Johnston, S.F. (2005) 'Chemicals and Process Engineering', 'Detectors - Infrared', 'Lighting - Public and Private', 'Spectroscopy - Infrared' In Hempstead, C. A., Worthington Jr, W. E. (eds), Encyclopedia of 20th Century Technology, New York, Routledge, ISBN=1579583865 (bookchapter)
• Johnston S.F. (2004) Telling tales: George Stroke and the historiography of holography, History & Technology, 20 (1), 31-53
• Johnston S.F. (2003) 'An unconvincing transformation? Michelson's interferential spectroscopy', Nuncius, 17, 61-82
• JOHNSTON, S. F. and Harvey, M (2002) 'Informing, teaching or propagandising? Combining Environmental and Science Studies for undergraduates', Discourse: Learning and Teaching in Philosophical and Religious Studies, 1 (2), 130-140
• Johnston S.F. (2002) 'From eye to machine: shifting authority in colour measurement', in: B. Saunders and J. van Brakel (eds.), Theories, Technologies and Instrumentalities of Colour: Anthropological and Historiographic Perspectives (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America), 289-306 pages (bookchapter)
• JOHNSTON, Sean F (2001) , A History of Light and Colour Measurement: Science in the Shadows (Bristol: Institute of Physics Press), Bristol, Institute of Physics Press
• Divall, Colin & JOHNSTON, Sean F. (2000) , Scaling Up: The Institution of Chemical Engineers and the Rise of a New Profession, Kluwer Academic
• Johnston S.F. (2000) In search of space: Fourier spectroscopy 1950-1970, in: B. Joerges and T. Shinn (ed.), Instrumentation: Between Science, State and Industry (Dordrecht: Kluwer), Kluwer Academic, 121-141 pages (bookchapter)
• Divall, C., JOHNSTON, S. F. and Donnelly, J. F (1999) 'Professional identity and organisation in a technical occupation: The emergence of chemical engineering in Britain, ca 1915-1930', Contemporary British History, 13, 56-81
• Johnston S.F. (1999) Identity through alliances: the British chemical engineer, in: I. Hellberg, M. Saks and C. Benoit (eds.), Professional Identities in Transition: Cross-Cultural Dimensions (Gothenberg University Press: Gothenberg), 391-408 pages (bookchapter)
• Divall, C. & JOHNSTON, S. F (1998) 'Scaling up: The evolution of intellectual apparatus associated with the manufacture of heavy chemicals in Britain, 1900-1939', in: A. S. Travis, H. G. Schröter and E. Homburg (ed.), Determinants in the Evolution of the European Chemical Industry, 1900-1939: New Technologies, Political Frameworks, Markets and Companies (Dordrecht: Kluwer)
• Williamson, M. J., Southall, J. P., Hubbard, H. V. St. A. & JOHNSTON, S. F (1998) 'NMR measurements of ionic mobility in model polymer electrolyte solutions', Electrochimica Acta, 43 (10), 1415
• Southall, J. P., Hubbard, H. V. St. A., JOHNSTON, S. F., Rogers, V., Davies, G. R., McIntyre, J. E., Ward & I. M (1996) 'Ionic conductivity and viscosity correlations in liquid electrolytes for incorporation into PVDF gel electrolytes', Solid State Ionics, 85, 51-60
• JOHNSTON, S. F., Ward, I. M., Cruickshank, J & Davies, G. R (1996) 'Spectroscopic studies of lithium triflate in polymer gel electrolytes and their constituents', Solid State Ionics, 90, 39-48
• Johnston S.F. (1996) 'Making light work: Practices and practitioners of light measurement', History of Science, 34, 273-302
• Johnston S.F. (1996) 'The construction of colorimetry by committee', Science in Context, 9, 387-420
• JOHNSTON, S. F. & Bryant, F. J (March 1992) 'Infrared absorption measurements in the field using LED sources', Power Engineering
• Johnston S.F. (1992) 'Gas monitors employing infrared LEDs', Measurement Science and Technology, 3, 191
• Johnston S.F. (May 1991) 'Big boom physics', Physics World, 4, 79
• JOHNSTON, Sean F (1991) , Fourier Transform Infrared: A Constantly Evolving Technology (Chichester: Prentice-Hall)
• Johnston S.F. (June 1990) 'The Goldilocks principle', Physics World, 3, 76
• Johnston S.F. (1990) The evolution of FTIR technology, Chemistry in Britain, 26, 573-579
• Johnston S.F. (1989) 'Autonomous meridian scanning photometer for auroral observations', Optical Engineering, 28, 20
• Shepherd, G. G., Gault, W. A., Miller, D. W., Pasturcyzk, Z., JOHNSTON, S. F., Kosteniuk, P. R., Haslett, J. W., Kendall, D. J. W., Wimperis, J. R (1985) 'WAMDII: Wide Angle Michelson Imaging Interferometer for Spacelab', Applied Optics, 24, 1571
• Gault, W. A., JOHNSTON, S. F. & Kendall, D. J. W (1985) 'Optimization of a field-widened Michelson interferometer', Applied Optics, 24, 1604
• JOHNSTON, S. F. and Wimperis, J. R (1984) 'Optical cements for interferometric applications', Applied Optics, 23, 1145
• JOHNSTON, S. F., Clayman, B. P. and Crozier, E. D (1983) 'Far infrared reflectivity of liquid Ga-Te alloys', Canadian Journal of Physics, 61, 1503
• Johnston S.F. (1981) 'Thermodynamic evidence for clustering in liquid Ga-Te alloys', Philosophical Magazine, B43, 937
• JOHNSTON, S. F. and Clayman, B. P (1980) 'Reflectivity measurements on hot reactive liquids using a FIR laser', Applied Optics, 19, 3118
• Carman, P. D., Johnston, S. F. (1980) Effects of ambient conditions on film sensitivity, Canadian Surveyor, 34, 23-30
• Johnston S.F. (1979) 'Holographic animation apparatus', American Journal of Physics, 47, 681-682
• JOHNSTON, S. F. and Stong, C. L (January 1975) 'A high school student builds a recording spectrophotometer', Scientific American