Biographical Memoirs

Biographical Memoirs

Volume 44

  • Publisher: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 9780309103619
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780309539975
  • Place of publication:  United States
  • Year of digital publication: 1974
  • Month: January
  • Pages: 389
  • Language: English

Biographic Memoirs: Volume 44 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
  • Charles Haskell Danforth November 30, 1883-January 10, 1969
    • ANCESTRY
    • TO BE OR NOT TO BE—A NATURALIST
    • A NATURALIST PREPARES FOR COLLEGE
    • A NATURALIST AT COLLEGE
    • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, 1908-1922
    • STANFORD UNIVERSITY, 1922-1969
    • SCIENTIFIC WORK—AN APPRAISAL
    • Bibliography
      • KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS
  • Thomas Francis, Jr. July 15, 1900-October 1, 1969
    • CHRONOLOGY
      • Military Service
    • HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
      • Awards
      • Memberships in Professional, Honorary, and Learned Societies
    • Bibliography
      • KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS
  • Donnel Foster Hewett June 24, 1881-February 5, 1971
    • HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
      • Professional Societies and other Memberships
      • Awards and Medals
    • Bibliography
      • KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS
  • William Vermillion Houston January 19, 1900-August 22, 1968
    • Bibliography
      • KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS
  • Howard Bishop Lewis November 8, 1887- March 7, 1954
    • Bibliography
      • KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS
  • Robert Harry Lowie June 12, 1883-September 21, 1957
    • THE MAKING OF AN ETHNOLOGIST
    • ROBERT LOWIE'S SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS
    • Bibliography
      • KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS
      • POSTHUMOUS PUBLICATIONS
  • Winthrop John Vanleuven Osterhout August 2, 1871-April 9, 1964
    • CHRONOLOGY
    • MEMBERSHIPS
    • Bibliography
      • KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS
  • Theodore William Richards January 31, 1868-April 2, 1928
    • RICHARDS'S SCIENTIFIC WORK
    • Bibliography
      • KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS
  • Rudolf Ruedemann October 16, 1864-June 18, 1956
    • Bibliography
      • KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS
  • Edward Arthur Steinhaus November 7, 1914-October 20, 1969
    • Bibliography
      • KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS
  • Chester Hamlin Werkman June 17, 1893-September 10, 1962
    • Bibliography
      • KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS
  • Acknowledgments for the Photographs

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