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
- Arthur M. Bueche
- Angus Campbell
- 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
- James Gilluly
- 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
- Carl Leavitt Hubbs
- 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
- 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:
- 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
- Vincent du Vigneaud
- HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
- Degrees
- Honorary Degrees
- University Appointments
- Memberships
- Awards and Lectureships
- Bibliography
- Alexander Wetmore