9 degrees of separation
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during the Nineteen Teens.Īnnie Kilmer (pictured with a photo of her son Joyce).
#9 DEGREES OF SEPARATION SERIES#
His connection to Johnson & Johnson was through the poet Joyce Kilmer, Fred Kilmer’s son, who interviewed Tagore for a lecture series on Tagore’s second trip to the U.S. Tagore, one of the leading lights of Asian literature, earned the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913, becoming the first non-European Nobel laureate and the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for literature. Rabindranath Tagore and Johnson & Johnson. Neil Patrick Harris and Johnson & Johnson: Actor and all-around cool guy Neil Patrick Harris was part of a web documentary on LISTERINE® Antiseptic done by our consumer operating company.ħ. Neil Patrick Harris during the taping of the LISTERINE® Antiseptic web documentary, from this blogger’s personal collection.Ħ. Bell, who was the real-life inspiration for Sherlock Holmes, was an early champion of sterile surgery and a colleague of Sir Joseph Lister…whose 1876 lecture Company founder Robert Wood Johnson attended. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Johnson & Johnson: Kilmer House readers will remember that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a student of Dr. (Public domain image of Queen Victoria from Wikimedia Commons is at this link.)ĥ. Lister’s talk at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876 inspired Robert Wood Johnson, who was in the audience, to found Johnson & Johnson with two of his brothers. Queen Victoria of England and Johnson & Johnson: Queen Victoria, one of the longest-reigning British monarchs in history, underwent successful surgery performed by Sir Joseph Lister, and in 1883 she knighted him in recognition of his lifelong work. Queen Victoria: connected to the royal families of Europe, and also connected to Johnson & Johnson! Public domain image of Queen Victoria courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.Ĥ. Mitchell was a friend of Company founder Robert Wood Johnson. Wells got the idea for his famous books about invisible men and time machines from early science fiction author Edward Page Mitchell, whose stories about an invisible man and a time machine predated those of Wells. Wells and Johnson & Johnson: It’s thought that H. Tesla once worked for Thomas Alva Edison…who was a friend of Fred Kilmer. Mark Twain was also very interested in science and was a friend of Nikola Tesla. It’s been said that Twain drew his inspiration for “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” from one of Clark’s short stories.
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Mark Twain and Johnson & Johnson: Mark Twain was a literary rival of Max Adeler, the pen name of one of our early board of directors members, Charles Heber Clark. (The public domain photo of Thomas Edison is at this Wikimedia commons link).Ĭharles Heber Clark – connecting Johnson & Johnson to Mark TwainĢ.
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So what’s his connection to Johnson &Johnson? Edison was a friend of Fred Kilmer, our director of scientific affairs from 1889-1934. Thomas Alva Edison and Johnson & Johnson: Inventor Thomas Alva Edison is credited with many inventions that shaped the modern world, including the commercial electric light, the phonograph, the stock ticker and motion pictures. Public Domain photo of Thomas Edison Courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin - via way of Wikimedia commons.ġ. As a company that’s more than 125 years old, Johnson & Johnson has quite a few surprising connections of its own, so here’s Six Degrees of Separation…Johnson & Johnson style. It’s a perfect example of how interconnected the world is…and how connected it is to the game’s inspiration and ultimate focal point, actor Kevin Bacon. Almost everyone has played the “Six Degrees of Separation” game at one time or another.