Biographical Memoirs

Volume 74

Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 9780309060868
eISBN Pdf: 9780309591867
eISBN Epub: 9780309173858
Place of publication: United States
Year of digital publication: 1998
Month: June
Pages: 397
Language: English

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Biographic Memoirs: Volume 74 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again.

Biographical Memoirs:
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Preface
Albert Francis Birch
- LIFE IN WASHINGTON D.C. AND AS A HARVARD UNDERGRADUATE
- FRANCIS BIRCH AND PERCY BRIDGMAN
- GEOPHYSICS AT HARVARD
- WORLD WAR II AND LITTLE BOY
- HEAT FLOW AND RADIOACTIVITY OF THE EARTH
- ELASTICITY AND CONSTITUTION OF THE EARTH'S INTERIOR
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND RECOGNITION
- NOTES
- Selected Bibliography
Gregory Breit
- PERSONAL HISTORY
- PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
- Selected Bibliography
Warren Lee Butler
- CHRONOLOGY
- AWARDS AND HONORS
- Selected Bibliography
George Brownlee Craig, Jr.
- Selected Bibliography
Scott Ellsworth Forbush
- EARLY YEARS
- 1926-32
- 1932-40
- 1940-45
- 1945-57
- 1957-58
- 1958-84
- GENERAL COMMENTS
- Selected Bibliography
Ross Gunn
- Selected Bibliography
David Harker
- PERSONAL HISTORY
- PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
  - Atmospheric Nitrogen Corp. (1930-33)
  - Caltech: The Harker Section (1933-36)
  - Johns Hopkins Years: The Donnay-Harker Law (1936-41)
  - General Electric: The Harker-Kasper Inequalities (1941-50)
  - Brooklyn Poly Years: The Harker Construction and Ribonuclease (1950-59)
  - Roswell Park Cancer Institute: The Structure of Ribonuclease (1959-76)
  - The Final Years: Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute (1977-91)
- Selected Bibliography
Yandell Henderson
- EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION
- PHYSIOLOGICAL LABORATORY, YALE MEDICAL SCHOOL
- PROFESSOR OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY, YALE UNIVERSITY
- Selected Bibliography
James Lynn Hoard
- Selected Bibliography
Joseph Kaplan
- EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION
- LABORATORY STUDIES
- SERVICE TO GEOPHYSICS
- Selected Bibliography
Stephen W. Kuffler
- EDUCATION AND EARLY LIFE
- PROFESSIONAL CAREER
- MAJOR RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS
  - Synaptic Transmission-First Studies
  - Slow Muscle Fibers and Muscle Spindles
  - Retinal Ganglion Cells
  - Excitation and Inhibition of Crustacean Stretch Receptor
  - Demonstration of Gaba as an Inhibitory Transmitter
  - Presynaptic Inhibition
  - Physiology of Glial Cells
  - Synaptic Transmission
- STEVE IN THE LABORATORY
- HONORS AND AWARDS
- FAMILY
- CONCLUSION
- Selected Bibliography
Anton Lang
- Selected Bibliography
Samuel Colville Lind
- EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION
- THE LEIPZIG LABORATORY (1904-1905)
- UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (1905-13)
- U.S. BUREAU OF MINES (1913-25)
- FIXED NITROGEN RESEARCH LABORATORY (1925-26)
- UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (1926-47)
- LATER YEARS
- Selected Bibliography
Alfred Otto Carl Nier
- EARLY YEARS (1911-36)
- AT HARVARD (1936-38)
- PRE-WAR YEARS AT MINNESOTA (1938-40)
- THE WAR YEARS (1942-45)
- RETURN TO MINNESOTA (1945-94)
- GEOCHRONOLOGY AND ISOTOPIC GEOCHEMISTRY (1946-62)
- MASS MEASUREMENTS OF NUCLIDES (1951-63)
- UPPER ATMOSPHERIC AND SPACE PHYSICS (1964-85)
- NOBLE GAS MICROANALYSIS (1983-94)
- NIER AS A PERSON
- REFERENCES
- Selected Bibliography
Clair Cameron Patterson
- NOTES
- Selected Bibliography
Berta V. Scharrer
- EARLY LIFE
- BIRTH OF THE NEUROSECRETION HYPOTHESIS
- STARTING OVER
- PHYSIOLOGICAL RELEVANCE OF NEUROSECRETION
- ON TO EINSTEIN
- LATER CAREER
- NOTE
- Selected Bibliography
Frederick Emmons Terman
- Selected Bibliography
Victor Chandler Twitty
- Selected Bibliography
Frits Warmolt Went
- Selected Bibliography
Eugene Paul Wigner
- EARLY HISTORY
- TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE, BERLIN
- RETURN TO BUDAPEST
- RETURN TO BERLIN
- SHIFT TO GÖTTINGEN
- WIGNER'S SOLILOQUY
- RETURN TO BERLIN
- PRINCETON BECKONS
- PREWAR YEARS OF RESEARCH
- UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, 1936-38
- NUCLEAR FISSION
- UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
- DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH, CLINTON LABORATORIES, OAK RIDGE
- REMAINING ACADEMIC YEARS
- RETIREMENT
- NOTES

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