1991 - Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry or Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, Elsevier
1989 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1989 - Arthur C. Cope Award, American Chemical Society (ACS)
1987 - US President's National Medal of Science "For his outstanding achievements in organic synthesis, notably in the stereoselective total synthesis of steroids by classical and biomimetic pressures.", Presented by President Reagan at a White House Ceremony on June 25, 1987.
1968 - William H. Nichols Medal, American Chemical Society (ACS)
1952 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
Asymmetric synthesis via acetal templates. 3. On the stereochemistry observed in the cyclization of chiral acetals of polyolefinic aldehydes; formation of optically active homoallylic alcohols
Paul A. Bartlett;William S. Johnson;John D. Elliott.
Journal of the American Chemical Society (1983)
The Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectra of Some α-Acetoxy Ketones
Kenneth L. Williamson;William S. Johnson.
Journal of the American Chemical Society (1961)
Biomimetic polyene cyclizations.
William S. Johnson.
Angewandte Chemie (1976)
Acetylenic bond participation in biogenetic-like olefinic cyclizations. II. Synthesis of dl-progesterone.
William S. Johnson;Michael B. Gravestock;Brian E. McCarry.
Journal of the American Chemical Society (1971)
The Energy Difference between the Chair and Boat Forms of Cyclohexane. The Twist Conformation of Cyclohexane
William S. Johnson;Victor J. Bauer;John L. Margrave;Margaret A. Frisch.
Journal of the American Chemical Society (1961)
A highly stereoselective synthesis of trans-trisubstituted olefinic bonds
Stephen F. Brady;Marcia A. Ilton;William S. Johnson.
Journal of the American Chemical Society (1968)
A Plan for Distinguishing between Some Five- and Six-membered Ring Ketones
William S. Johnson;Wesley E. Shelberg.
Journal of the American Chemical Society (1945)
An improved reagent for the o-alkyl cleavage of methyl esters by nucleophilic displacement
Paul A. Bartlett;William S. Johnson.
Tetrahedron Letters (1970)
Biomimetische Cyclisierungen von Polyenen
William S. Johnson.
Angewandte Chemie (1976)
The First Examples of Nonenzymic, Biomimetic Polyene Pentacyclizations. Total Synthesis of the Pentacyclic Triterpenoid Sophoradiol
Paul V. Fish;William S. Johnson.
Journal of Organic Chemistry (1994)
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