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Harold W. Woolley helped compile quantitative properties from thermodynamics of hydrogen, distinguishing its isotopic forms and spin isomers of hydrogen. The compilation compares orthohydrogen and parahydrogen equilibrium calculations with spectral and thermal evidence. It also distinguishes a fixed-composition sample of normal hydrogen from a mixture allowed to reach spin-isomer equilibrium.^[ref]

NBS author of the hydrogen thermodynamic compilation cited in Compilation of Thermal Properties of Hydrogen in Its Various Isotopic and Ortho-Para Modifications by Harold W. Woolley and others. The institutional article byline verifies this author name.

At low temperature, retain $J=0$ in the even sum and $J=1$ in the odd sum. Their weights are respectively $1$ and $3e^{-2{\theta }_{\mathrm{rot}}/T}$ before the nuclear-spin multiplicity, soEquilibrium hydrogen then becomes almost entirely parahydrogen. At high temperature, many even and odd rotational levels contribute, and their spatial sums have the same leading value. HenceThis is normal hydrogen. Its familiar high-temperature ratio is a nuclear-spin multiplicity ratio, not the $9:1$ ratio of the two lowest levels. Maintaining conversion is essential: a sample cooled without an effective conversion mechanism can retain its earlier composition instead of following $K(T)$. NBS thermodynamic data distinguish equilibrium composition from normal hydrogen and compare the state-sum prediction with spectroscopic and thermal evidence.^[ref]