Biographic Memoirs: Volume 59 contains short biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences.
- Biographical Memoirs
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Biographical Memoirs
- Frederic C. Bartter September 10, 1914-May 5, 1983
- EARLY LIFE
- ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH
- PERSONAL QUALITIES
- HONORS
- CHRONOLOGY
- Postgraduate Training And Fellowships
- Professional Appointments
- Memberships
- Selected Bibliography
- George Wells Beadle October 22, 1903-June 9, 1989
- EDUCATION AND EARLY LIFE
- DROSOPHILA STUDIES: CROSSING OVER, VERMILION AND CINNABAR
- BEADLE AND TATUM
- NEUROSPORA CRASSA AND GENE ACTION
- BEADLE AS LABORATORY HEAD
- CHAIRMAN OF THE DIVISION OF BIOLOGY, CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
- HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
- Honorary Degrees
- Doctor of Science
- Legum Doctor (LL. D.)
- Litterarum Humaniorum Doctor (L.H.D.)
- Doctor of Public Service
- Awards
- Professional And Honorary Societies
- Selected Bibliography
- Solomon A. Berson April 22, 1918-April 11, 1972
- Raymond Thayer Birge March 13, 1887-March 22, 1980
- EARLY LIFE
- BERKELEY
- CHAIRMAN OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
- HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
- RAYMOND BIRGE, THE MAN
- Selected Bibliography
- William Henry Chandler July 31, 1878-October 29, 1970
- EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION
- TREES IN TWO CLIMATES
- Death by Freezing
- The Rest Period
- FRUIT TREE NUTRITION—THE ZINC STORY
- REFLECTIONS, CONVICTIONS, AND FAITH
- Selected Bibliography
- Gertrude Mary Cox January 13, 1900-October 17, 1978
- EARLY YEARS
- SOUTHERN VENTURE
- PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND HONORS
- TRAVELS
- CLOSING REMARKS
- Selected Bibliography
- Conrad Arnold Elvehjem May 27, 1901-July 27, 1962
- EARLY YEARS
- RETURN TO WISCONSIN
- NICOTINIC ACID
- THE B VITAMINS AND AMINO ACIDS
- PUBLIC SERVICE
- UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION
- AWARDS
- Selected Bibliography
- Gottfried Samuel Fraenkel April 23, 1901-October 26, 1984
- EARLY LIFE
- BRITAIN
- AMERICA
- CLOSING REMARKS
- HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
- Selected Bibliography
- Haldan Keffer Hartline December 22, 1903-March 18, 1983
- EDUCATION AND EARLY LIFE
- PROFESSIONAL CAREER
- MAJOR SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS
- Single Optic Nerve Fibers
- The Receptive Field
- The Generator Potential
- The Hartline-Ratliff Equations
- A SENSE OF HUMOR
- HONORS AND AWARDS
- HOME AND FAMILY
- CONCLUDING REMARKS
- Selected Bibliography
- Mark Kac August 16, 1914-October 25, 1984
- AMERICA
- MATHEMATICAL WORK
- Independence and the Normal Law
- Brownian Motion and Integration in Function Space
- Statistical Mechanics
- PERSONAL APPRECIATION
- HONORS, PRIZES, AND SERVICE
- Selected Bibliography
- Aldo Starker Leopold October 22, 1913-August 23, 1983
- PROFESSIONAL AND PUBLIC SERVICE
- HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
- Selected Bibliography
- Manfred Martin Mayer June 15, 1916-September 18, 1984
- EDUCATION AND EARLY LIFE
- SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTION
- TEACHER AND MENTOR
- HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
- Professional And Academic Positions
- Learned Societies
- Honorary Memberships
- Other Professional Activities
- Prizes And Awards
- Selected Bibliography
- Walsh McDermott October 24, 1909-October 17, 1981
- EDUCATION AND EARLY LIFE
- THE MCDERMOTT LABORATORY
- Penicillin
- Antimicrobial Therapy for Infections in Animals
- More Penicillin and the Role of Drugs in Combination
- EDITORIAL WORK
- CHANGE IN FOCUS: PUBLIC HEALTH
- WORK IN THE JOHNSON FOUNDATION
- PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES
- FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE
- CREATION OF THE INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE
- AWARDS
- ETHICS, THE MEDICAL PROFESSION, AND MODERN SCIENCE
- Selected Bibliography
- Theophilus Shickel Painter August 22, 1889-October 5, 1969
- EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION
- CHROMOSOME CYTOLOGY AND SEX CHROMOSOMES
- DROSOPHILA CYTOGENETICS
- UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION
- RETURN TO SCIENCE
- George Polya December 13, 1887-September7, 1985
- ORIGINS AND CAREER
- PROBABILITY
- COMPLEX ANALYSIS
- REAL ANALYSIS, APPROXIMATION THEORY, NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
- COMBINATORICS
- MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
- TEACHING AND LEARNING MATHEMATICS
- Selected Bibliography
- Edward Lawrie Tatum December 14, 1909-November 7, 1975
- EDUCATION AND EARLY LIFE
- THE STANFORD YEARS (1937-1945)
- Neurospora and the One Gene-One Enzyme Theory
- Anticipating the One Gene-One Enzyme Theory
- Tryptophane and E. coli K-12
- Tatum and Lederberg—Genetic Recombination in Bacteria
- RETURN TO STANFORD (1948-1956)
- THE ROCKEFELLER INSTITUTE (1957-1975)
- THE NOBEL PRIZE (1958)
- IN CONCLUSION
- Selected Bibliography
- Cornelis Bernardus Van Niel November 4, 1897-March 10, 1985
- EDUCATION AND EARLY LIFE
- DELFT: WORKING WITH KLUYVER
- PACIFIC GROVE: HOPKINS MARINE STATION
- PHOTOSYNTHESIS STUDIES
- METHANE PRODUCTION AND CARBON DIOXIDE UTILIZATION
- DENITRIFICATION
- VAN NIEL THE GENERALIST
- TEACHER AND COLLEAGUE
- RETIREMENT
- HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
- Degrees And Honorary Degrees
- Fellowships And Professional Appointments
- Awards And Honors
- Learned Societies
- Selected Bibliography
- Robert H. Whittaker December 27, 1920-October 20, 1980
- EDUCATION AND EARLY LIFE
- SCIENTIFIC WORK
- The Continuum of Plant Species Distribution
- Plant and Insect Population Patterns, and Element Cycling
- Dimension Analysis and the Classification of the Kingdoms
- Desert and Forest: Structure and Function
- Species Diversity, Ordination Methods
- TEACHER, DIPLOMAT, HONORED RESEARCHER
- HEALTH PROBLEMS
- IN CONCLUSION
- Selected Bibliography
- Maxwell Myer Wintrobe October 27, 1901-December 9, 1986
- EDUCATION AND EARLY LIFE
- THE TULANE YEARS (1927-1930): ''ANEMIA OF THE SOUTH," NORMAL BLOOD VALUES, THE WINTROBE HEMATOCRIT,...
- JOHNS HOPKINS (1930-1943)
- THE UTAH YEARS (1943-1986)
- The Utah Group and the Wintrobe Legacy
- Clinical Hematology; Principles Of Internal Medicine; Blood, Pure And Eloquent
- RETIREMENT FROM THE CHAIR OF MEDICINE
- Selected Bibliography
- Cumulative Index
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