Sven Justus Johnson, PhD, of Damariscotta, past away peacefully on May 4 at Penobscot Bay Medical Center, following a bout of pneumonia.
Dr. Johnson was born in Sundavall, Sweden, on Sept. 2, 1921. His family immigrated to the United States in the mid 1920’s, settling in New Jersey. Following high school, while employed as a chemist at Bell Laboratories, he met Marie Bauer. They were married in June of 1943.
Dr. Johnson served in the U.S. Coast Guard during WWII as a radio technician, and the airwaves changed his future course of studies, from chemistry to physics. While in the Coast Guard, he completed some of his college studies, thanks to the copious notes taken by Marie during her studies at Barnard College.
After the war, he attended the University of Connecticut. In 1959, he returned with his family to Sweden to pursue his doctorate degree in physics at the University of Sweden, in Uppsala. The Johnson family returned to the United States in 1969, settled in Southold, N.Y. and established Johnson Laboratories, a research and developmental company. Dr. Johnson was internationally recognized in fields of ultrasonic, medical and oceanographic research.
In the late 1980’s, Sven and Marie Johnson moved their home and business to Maine.
Dr. Johnson was predeceased by his wife, Marie.
He is survived by a sister, Nancy of Massachusetts; daughters, Susan Johnson Orton of Roxbury, N.Y., and Barbara Anlér of Knivsta, Sweden; grandchildren, Jessica Anlér of Knivsta, Sweden, Theresa Anlér of Uppsala, Sweden, Erica Pivko of Kingston, N.Y., Karen (Kajsa) Pivko of Everett, Wash., and Sven Edward Johnson of Damariscotta.
Arrangements are entrusted to the care and direction of Strong Funeral Home and Cremation Center, 612 Main St., Damariscotta.
