* [Mathematics Genealogy page](https://www.mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=16286) ## Selected writings Introducing the [[Johnson-Wilson spectrum]] ([[Morava K-theory]]) * [[David Copeland Johnson]], [[W. Stephen Wilson]], _BP operations and Morava's extraordinary K-theories_, Math. Z. 144 (1): 55−75 (1975) ([pdf](https://people.math.rochester.edu/faculty/doug/otherpapers/jw-morava.pdf)) On unstable [[cohomology operations]] (hence: in [[non-abelian cohomology]]): * [[John Michael Boardman]], [[David Copeland Johnson]], [[W. Stephen Wilson]], _Unstable Operations in Generalized Cohomology_ ([pdf](https://hopf.math.purdue.edu/Boardman-Johnson-Wilson/bjw.pdf)), in: [[Ioan Mackenzie James]] (ed.) _[[Handbook of Algebraic Topology]]_ Oxford 1995 ([doi:10.1016/B978-0-444-81779-2.X5000-7](https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-81779-2.X5000-7)) category: people