Biographic Memoirs: Volume 54 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
- Jesse Wakefield Beams December
- EARLY LIFE IN KANSAS
- GRADUATE EDUCATION IN PHYSICS, 1921-1925
- THE YALE YEARS, 1926-1928
- RETURN TO VIRGINIA
- DEVELOPMENT OF THE ULTRACENTRIFUGE
- GAS CENTRIFUGE CONCENTRATION OF ATOMIC ISOTOPES, ESPECIALLY THOSE OF URANIUM
- PRECISE MEASUREMENT OF THE GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT
- A NEW INSTRUMENT FOR BIOPHYSICAL STUDIES
- PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PERSONAL ATTITUDES
- PROFESSIONAL CHRONOLOGY HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
- Earned Degrees
- Positions
- Professional and Honorary Societies
- Boards and Committees
- Awards
- Honorary Degrees
- Bibliography
- Elmer Keiser Bolton
- Wilmot Hyde Bradley
- James Bryant Conant
- HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
- Awards
- Elective and Honorary Memberships
- Honorary Doctoral Degrees
- Bibliography
- CHEMICAL RESEARCH
- BOOKS PUBLISHED
- Griffith Conrad Evans
- FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
- POTENTIAL THEORY IN TWO DIMENSIONS
- Bibliography
- Rudolf Kompfner
- Colin Munro MacLeod
- Samuel Marion McElvain
- I. THE ACETOACETIC ESTER CONDENSATION
- II. KETENE ACETALS
- III. PYRIDINE AND PIPERIDINE CHEMISTRY
- MCELVAIN AS TEACHER
- PH.D. DEGREES TAKEN UNDER S. M. MCELVAIN
- POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATES
- Bibliography
- Walter Joseph Meek
- Rudolph Leo Bernhard Minkowski
- Leonard Isaac Schiff
- Adolph Hans Schultz
- I. GERMANY
- II. SWITZERLAND
- III. TO AMERICA
- IV. BACK TO SWITZERLAND
- REFLECTIONS
- HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
- Bibliography
- Edmund Ware Sinnott
- HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
- Academic Degrees
- Honorary Degrees
- Award
- Appointments
- Editorships
- Learned Society Memberships
- Bibliography
- William Hay Taliaferro
- Robert Erastus Wilson
- THE EARLY YEARS
- THE TRANSITION TO INDUSTRY
- GOVERNMENT SERVICE
- THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE MAN
- HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
- Honorary Degrees
- Academic Positions
- Military Service
- Governmental Positions
- Awards and Honors
- Memberships in Learned Societies
- Bibliography
- PATENTS
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