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.

  • Biographical Memoirs
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • PREFACE
  • GEORGE FREDERIC BARKER
  • WILLIAM BLOOM
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • JOHN NATHANIEL COUCH
    • THE EARLY YEARS: FAMILY AND EDUCATION
    • THE INTERMEDIATE YEARS: GRADUATE TRAINING
      • 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
    • EARLY CAREER IN PHYSICS (1929-32)
      • Bristol
      • Copenhagen and Zürich
    • THE BERLIN YEARS (1932-37)
    • THE BACTERIOPHAGE EPOCH (1937-53)
      • 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
    • FAMILY
    • 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
    • TWO YEARS IN BUFFALO
    • THE FINAL YEARS, COLUMBIA, 1961-79
    • NOTES
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • JOY PAUL GUILFORD
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • JOEL HENRY HILDEBRAND
    • CHRONOLOGY OF MAJOR ACTIVITIES AND HONORS
    • PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
    • NATIONAL AND OTHER SERVICE
    • AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY AWARDS
    • OTHER AWARDS AND LECTURESHIPS
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • GERARD PETER KUIPER
    • SOURCES
    • NOTE
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
      • BIDELMAN'S PAPERS
  • Leonard Amby Maynard
    • 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
    • RESEARCH ACCOMPLISHMENTS
    • 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
    • THE HOME AS AN ENVIRONMENT FOR DISCUSSION OF NUTRITION-RELATED INITIATIVES
    • MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS IN CHANGING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF NUTRITIONAL ISSUES AND IN PROMOTING THE TEACHING...
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • I. I. RABI
    • 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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