Biographical Memoirs

Biographical Memoirs

Volume 72

  • Publisher: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 9780309057882
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780309590648
  • Place of publication:  United States
  • Year of digital publication: 1997
  • Month: July
  • Pages: 395
  • Language: English

Biographic Memoirs: Volume 72 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
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • PREFACE
  • HERBERT L. ANDERSON
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • ARCHIBALD PHILIP BARD
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • SUBRAHMANYAN CHANDRASEKHAR
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • ROBERT BRAINARD COREY
    • PERSONAL HISTORY
    • PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
    • NOTES
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • ALBERT DORFMAN
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • LEE ALVIN DUBRIDGE
    • YOUTH
    • LEADERSHIP
    • THE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    • LATER YEARS
    • NOTES
    • SELECTED HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
    • HONORARY DEGREES
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • LEO GOLDBERG
    • RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS
    • SCIENTIFIC DIPLOMACY
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • LOUIS PLACK HAMMETT
    • PERSONAL
    • SCIENCE
    • THE ACIDITY FUNCTION
    • PROTONATION OF CARBONYL GROUPS
    • THE HAMMETT EQUATION
    • PHYSICAL-ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
    • THE EXPLOSIVES RESEARCH LABORATORY
    • THE POSTWAR YEARS
    • NOTES
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • EMIL WALTER HAURY
    • PERSONAL HISTORY
    • DENDROCHRONOLOGY
    • GILA PUEBLO
    • UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
    • THE ARIZONA STATE MUSEUM
    • REGIONAL AND NATIONAL INFLUENCE
    • RESEARCH ACCOMPLISHMENTS
    • REFERENCES
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
      • POSTHUMOUS PUBLICATIONS
  • RAYMOND GEORGE HERB
    • NOTES
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • JAMES GORDON HORSFALL
    • CHILDHOOD
    • COLLEGE
    • FUNGICIDES
    • BORDEAUX MIXTURE DIED AND FELL OVER
    • EXPERIMENTER
    • EPIDEMIOLOGY
    • THE CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION
    • FUN WITH WORDS
    • THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND SCIENCE POLICY
    • NOTES
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • EMIL THOMAS KAISER
    • EARLY YEARS
    • SEMISYNTHETIC ENZYMES
    • SYNTHESIS OF PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS
    • AMPHIPHILIC PEPTIDES
    • SITE-DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS
    • SCIENTIFIC SIGNIFICANCE
    • COURAGE
    • NOTES
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • DONALD WILLIAM KERST
    • THE BETATRON
    • THE MURA YEARS
    • PLASMA PHYSICS
    • PERSONAL DATA
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • PAUL JACKSON KRAMER
    • THE EARLY YEARS
    • THE MOVE TO THE SOUTH
    • THE LABORATORY FLOURISHES
    • NATIONAL ATTENTION
    • THE FATEFUL SABBATIC
    • THE BOOKS
    • IN CONCLUSION
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • Milton Stanley Livingston
    • NOTES
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • WILLIAM WILSON MORGAN
    • EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION
    • SPECTRAL CLASSIFICATION
    • SPIRAL ARMS
    • PHOTOELECTRIC PHOTOMETRY AND THE MK SYSTEM
    • STELLAR POPULATIONS
    • GALAXIES
    • CAREER
    • OTHER INTERESTS
    • CONCLUSION
    • NOTES
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • MARCUS MORTON RHOADES
    • REFERENCES
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • HENRY STOMMEL
    • EDUCATION AND EARLY PROFESSIONAL YEARS
    • THEORY OF THE GENERAL CIRCULATION OF THE OCEAN
    • OBSERVATIONS OF THE OCEAN CIRCULATION
    • MIXING AND MICROSTRUCTURE
    • TIDES, ELECTROMAGNETIC METHODS, EDDIES, ESTUARIES
    • ACADEMIC YEARS
    • NOTES
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • JOSEPH E. VARNER
    • GROWING UP IN OHIO AND STARTING A FAMILY
    • THE FIRST TEN YEARS: FROM ORGANIC ACIDS TO ENZYME SYNTHESIS
    • CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY AND THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES
    • HORMONAL CONTROL OF ENZYME SYNTHESIS
    • HYDROXYPROLINE-RICH GLYCOPROTEINS AND EXTENSIN
    • TISSUE PRINTING, LIGNIN BIOSYNTHESIS AND CELL DEATH (REPRISE)
    • MENTORING
    • PUBLIC SERVICE
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • PAUL ALFRED WEISS
    • NOTES
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

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