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
- 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
- HERBERT FRIEDMANN
- 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
- 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
- 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
- FRANZ SCHRADER
- WILLIAM SMITH TILLETT
- NOTES
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- MAURICE BOLKS VISSCHER
- NOTES
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ROBERT WILLIAMS WOOD
- DON MERLIN LEE YOST
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- BOOK REVIEWS
- Cumulative Index