Biographical Memoirs

Biographical Memoirs

Volume 62

  • Publisher: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 9780309047821
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780309598293
  • Place of publication:  United States
  • Year of digital publication: 1993
  • Month: January
  • Pages: 509
  • Language: English

Biographic Memoirs: Volume 62 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.

  • Cover
  • Front Matter
  • GEORGE FREDERIC BARKER
  • WILLIAM BLOOM
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • JOHN NATHANIEL COUCH
  • THE EARLY YEARS: FAMILY AND EDUCATION
  • Battlefield, Laboratory, Classroom
  • THE PROFESSIONAL YEARS: GENTLEMAN AND SCHOLAR
  • THE LATER YEARS: RETIREMENT
  • NOTES
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • MAX LUDWIG HENNING DELBRUCK
  • FAMILY BACKGROUND
  • EARLY INTEREST IN SCIENCE
  • Bristol
  • Copenhagen and Zrich
  • THE BERLIN YEARS (1932-37)
  • Early Days at Caltech
  • Vanderbilt University and the Phage Group
  • Cold Spring Harbor and the Phage and Phycomyces Courses
  • Return to Caltech
  • DNA as Genetic Material
  • THE PHYCOMYCES PERIOD (1953-81)
  • The Cologne Interlude (1961-63)
  • PERSONALITY
  • Sense of Humour
  • The Intellectual Man
  • LAST DAYS
  • HONORS
  • REFERENCES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • MICHAEL DOUDOROFF
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • HERBERT FRIEDMANN
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • JACOB FURTH
  • EARLY YEARS IN RESEARCH, 1918-32
  • CORNELL, 1932-47
  • A SHORT STAY IN DALLAS, 1947-49
  • RADIATION BIOLOGY AT OAK RIDGE, 1950-54
  • HARVARD AND THE CHILIDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION, 1954-59
  • THE FINAL YEARS, COLUMBIA, 1961-79
  • NOTES
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • JOY PAUL GUILFORD
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • JOEL HENRY HILDEBRAND
  • PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
  • OTHER AWARDS AND LECTURESHIPS
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • GERARD PETER KUIPER
  • SOURCES
  • NOTE
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • BIDELMAN'S PAPERS
  • EARLY LIFE AND FORMATIVE YEARS
  • FIRST CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE NUTRITION PROGRAM AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY
  • LEADERSHIP IN ESTABLISHING CORNELL AS A CENTER FOR HUMAN NUTRITION RESEARCH AND TEACHING
  • PUBLIC SERVICE DURING WORLD WAR II AND IN THE POSTWAR YEARS
  • INTERPRETATION OF IMPORTANT ADVANCES AND RELEVANT ISSUES IN NUTRITION FOR POLICY MAKERS
  • ENCOURAGEMENT OF FACULTY COLLEAGUES
  • HONORS
  • MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS IN CHANGING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF NUTRITIONAL ISSUES AND IN PROMOTING THE TEACHING...
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • THE EARLY YEARS
  • RESEARCH AND TEACHING AT COLUMBIA
  • WORLD WAR II
  • RETURN TO COLUMBIA
  • SCIENTIST STATESMAN
  • NOTES
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • RICHARD BROOKE ROBERTS
  • FAMILY
  • CHILDHOOD AND EDUCATION
  • PREWAR YEARS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM OF THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON
  • WARTIME
  • PEACE, ARMS CONTROL, AND SOME POLITICS
  • THE BIOPHYSICS GROUP AT THE DEPARTMENT OF TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM
  • STUDIES OF BIOSYNTHESIS IN E. COLI
  • MACROMOLECULAR BIOSYNTHESIS
  • THE BRAIN
  • NOTE
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • KENNETH DAVID ROEDER
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • FRANZ SCHRADER
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • WILLIAM SMITH TILLETT
  • NOTES
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • MAURICE BOLKS VISSCHER
  • NOTES
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • ROBERT WILLIAMS WOOD
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • DON MERLIN LEE YOST
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • BOOK REVIEWS
  • Cumulative Index

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