Don R. Swanson (born October 10, 1924) is an American information scientist, most renowned for his work in literature-based discovery in the biomedical domain. Events 680 - Battle of Karbala: Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, is decapitated Year 1924 ( MCMXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the His particular method has been used as a model for further work, and is often referred to as Swanson linking. He has been professor emeritus of the University of Chicago since 1996, but remains active in a post-retirement appointment to this date.
Swanson received his B. S. in Physics at CalTech, Pasadena, California in 1945, followed by an M. The California Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Caltech) is a private, Coeducational research university located in Pasadena Pasadena ( is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. A at Rice Institute, Houston, Texas, two years later. William Marsh Rice University (commonly called Rice University and opened in 1912 as The William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Letters Science and Art He worked as a physicist at various laboratories until 1963, when he was made a professor at the University of Chicago, where he remains today. The University of Chicago is a Private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago.
In 2000, he was awarded the ASIST Award of Merit, the highest honor of the society, for his "lifetime achievements in research and scholarship. " [1]
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- Bio
- ASIST Award of Merit Acceptance Speech
- ARROWSMITH: a semi-automated literature linking tool
- portrait
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