Biographical Memoirs

Biographical Memoirs

Volume 69

  • Publisher: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 9780309053464
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780309588577
  • Place of publication:  United States
  • Year of digital publication: 1996
  • Month: May
  • Pages: 437
  • Language: English

Biographic Memoirs: Volume 69 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
  • Kenneth Ewart Boulding
    • NOTES
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Solomon J. Buchsbaum
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Albert Hewett Coons
    • Selected Bibliography
  • William Francis Giauque
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Susumu Hagiwara
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Bernhard Haurwitz
    • EARLY YEARS
    • PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA (1932-41)
    • MIGRATION TO THE WEST
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Joseph Paxson Iddings
    • EDUCATION
    • CAREER COURSE DETERMINED
    • "HIGHEST EXPECTATIONS"
    • MAPPING YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
    • RELUCTANT TEACHER
    • ROCK CLASSIFICATION
    • PROGRAM FOR EXPERIMENTAL PETROLOGY
    • TEXTBOOK PREPARATIONS
    • THE SUDDEN COLLAPSE
    • "FREE TO WANDER"
    • SECOND CIRCLING OF THE GLOBE
    • HONORS
    • SCHOLAR AND GENTLEMAN
    • NOTES
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Herman Moritz Kalckar
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Israel Michael Lerner
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Thomas Seward Lovering
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Nicholas Ulrich Mayall
    • LIFE HISTORY
    • EDUCATION
    • LICK OBSERVATORY
    • WORLD WAR II
    • THE 120-INCH TELESCOPE
    • POSTWAR LICK RESEARCH
    • KITT PEAK NATIONAL OBSERVATORY
    • NOTE
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Edwin Mattison McMillan
    • THE EARLY PREWAR PERIOD
    • STUDIES ON TRANSURANIC ELEMENTS
    • MILITARY WORK DURING WORLD WAR II
    • ACCELERATOR PHYSICS
    • LABORATORY DIRECTOR
    • CONCLUSION
    • NOTES
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Hermann Rahn
    • CONTRIBUTIONS TO REPRODUCTIVE PHYSIOLOGY OF SNAKES AND BIRDS, 1937-43
    • PULMONARY MECHANICS AND BLOOD-GAS EXCHANGE; YEARS WITH WALLACE FENN, 1941-56
    • BLOOD-GAS EXCHANGE AT HIGH AND LOW PRESSURES; PHYSIOLOGY OF DIVING IN THE AMA (DIVING WOMEN) OF KOREA AND JAPAN, 1956-68
    • GAS EXCHANGE IN AVIAN EGGS AND ITS ROLE IN EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT, 1968-90
    • SERVICE TO SCIENCE: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL
    • TEACHER, SCHOLAR, AND GENTLEMAN
    • NOTES
    • SELECTED AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Tracy Morton Sonneborn
    • PERSONAL HISTORY
    • PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
      • Stenostomum
      • Colpidium
      • The Life Cycle Of Paramecium
      • Mating-Type Inheritance
      • Killers
      • Serotypes
      • Plasmagenese
      • The Cortex
      • Senescence And The Life Cycle
      • The Species Problem
      • Genes
      • Trichocysts
    • CONCLUSION
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Alexander Spoehr
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Eliot Stellar
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Julian Haynes Steward
    • NOTES
    • FURTHER READINGS
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Harald Ulrik Sverdrup
    • NOTES
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Champ B. Tanner
    • THE FORMATIVE YEARS
    • THE SOIL PHYSICS YEARS
    • THE MICROMETEOROLOGY PHASE
    • THE PLANT PHYSIOLOGY PHASE
    • THE FINAL YEARS
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Harland Goff Wood
    • Selected Bibliography

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