Nathan Gallup Williams Haynes (29 July 1886, Detroit – 16 November 1970, Stonington, Connecticut) was an American journalist, editor, publisher, and historian of chemistry.
[2] Williams Haynes worked as a reporter for the New York Sun and as an editor for Field and Fancy from 1906 to 1907.
[1] He enrolled in 1908 as a special student at Johns Hopkins University, where he studied economics, biology, and chemistry, but left in 1911 without a degree.
In 1939 Haynes sold his interest in the trade journals in order to focus his efforts as an author and editor.
[4] In 1950 Haynes was awarded the Honorable Cornelius Amory Pugsley Bronze Medal for his work in protecting the natural environment.