Biographical Memoirs

Biographical Memoirs

Volume 56

  • Publisher: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 9780309036931
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780309581790
  • Place of publication:  United States
  • Year of digital publication: 1987
  • Month: January
  • Pages: 635
  • Language: English

Biographic Memoirs: Volume 56 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
  • Richard McLean Badger
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Arthur M. Bueche
    • Bibliography
    • PATENTS
  • Angus Campbell
    • Selected Bibliography
  • William Gemmell Cochran
    • Cochran's Work
      • Design and Analysis of Comparative Investigations
      • Counted Data
      • Sample Surveys
      • Cochran's Other Contributions to Statistics and to Society
    • REFERENCES
    • Selected Bibliography
  • James Brown Fisk
    • Selected Bibliography
  • James Gilluly
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Kurt Godel
    • Origins and Education, 1906-1930
      • Godel's Completeness Theorem (1930a)
      • Vienna, With Visits To Princeton (IAS)
      • Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems (1931a), etc.
      • Godel's Relative Consistency Proof for the Axiom of Choice and for the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis (1938a, 1938b, 1939a…
      • Princeton (IAS) 1939-1978
    • REFERENCES
    • HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
      • Awards and Memberships
      • Honorary Degrees
    • ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • Sterling Brown Hendricks
    • Bibliography
  • Carl Leavitt Hubbs
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Paul F. Lazarsfeld
    • The Vienna Years
      • Career in the United States
      • The Interaction of Theory and Method
      • Other Interests
      • Lazarsfeld's Circle
      • Recognition
      • Legacy
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Esmond R. Long
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Eli Kennerly Marshall, Jr.
    • I. Urea and Early Kidney Studies
      • II. Renal Secretion
      • III. Interlude: Respiratory and Cardiac Physiology and Pharmacology, 1932-1936
      • IV. Chemotherapy, 1936-1941
      • V. Malaria, 1941-1946
      • VI. The Last Decade: Methods, Cinchoninic Acids, Ethanol
    • Bibliography
  • Stanford Moore
    • AWARDS, HONORS, AND DISTINCTIONS
      • Chronology
      • Selected Memberships
      • Honorary Degrees
      • Awards Shared with William H. Stein
    • Bibliography
  • Per Fredrik Thorkelsson Scholander
    • HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
      • Education
      • Professional Appointments
      • Honors and Awards
    • Bibliography
  • William H. Stein:
    • Bibliography
  • Curt Stern
    • The Early Years
      • Drosophila
      • Human Genetics
      • The Man
      • Later Years
    • REFERENCES
    • Bibliography
  • Merton Franklin Utter
    • Utter's Background
      • A Summary of his Research
      • Personal Aspects in Merton Utter's Life
    • HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
      • Degrees
      • Professional Appointments
      • Professional Activities
      • Honors
    • Selected Bibliography
  • John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
    • Family and Early Years
      • Early Career in Physics
      • Early Days of the Quantum Theory: Harvard (1920-23) and Minnesota (1923-28)
      • Wisconsin (1928-34) and Prewar Harvard: Magnetism, Molecules, Crystal Fields, and the Origin of Magnetic Relaxation
      • Harvard: War and Immediate Postwar Years Van as Consultant, Grey Eminence, and Midwife to the Birth of Quantum Electronics
      • Harvard: The Later Years Scientist-Administrator
      • Teaching and Other Personalia
      • Last Years
    • Bibliography
      • BOOKS
  • Vincent du Vigneaud
    • HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
      • Degrees
      • Honorary Degrees
      • University Appointments
      • Memberships
      • Awards and Lectureships
    • Bibliography
  • Alexander Wetmore
    • Part I
      • Part II
      • Part III
    • Bibliography

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