Biographic Memoirs: Volume 77 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
- LYMAN JAMES BRIGGS
- PERSONAL HISTORY
- PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
- LATER YEARS
- NOTES
- SELECTED HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- SOIL SCIENCE
- NAVIGATION
- AERODYNAMICS
- STRATOSPHERIC EXPLORATION
- WAR RESEARCH
- BASEBALL TRAJECTORIES
- LIQUIDS UNDER TENSION
- ROGER WILLIAM BROWN
- PHILIP PACY COHEN
- BERNARD DAVID DAVIS
- THE TUBERCULOSIS RESEARCH LABORATORY AND NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (1948–1957)
- HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL (1958–1984)
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- MICHAEL J. S. DEWAR
- ROBERT HENRY DICKE
- PERSONAL HISTORY
- PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
- NOTES
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- WALTHER FREDERICK GOEBEL
- GERTRUDE SCHARFF GOLDHABER
- NOTES
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- CARL W. GOTTSCHALK
- EARLY LIFE
- REVIVING MICROPUNCTURE
- A DECISIVE MICROPUNCTURE EXPERIMENT
- LATER STUDIES
- SERVICE AND AWARDS
- COLLECTOR AND HISTORIAN
- THE LAST YEARS
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- JESSE D. JENNINGS
- JOHN GAMBLE KIRKWOOD
- IZAAK MAURITS KOLTHOFF
- NOTES
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- EDWIN HERBERT LAND
- PERSONAL HISTORY
- POLARIZER
- INSTANT PHOTOGRAPHY
- SCIENCE-BASED COMPANY
- COLOR VISION RESEARCH
- OVERHEAD RECONNAISSANCE
- EDUCATION AND PHILANTHROPY
- HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- RICHARD MACY NOYES
- JAMES OLDS
- ALWIN MAX PAPPENHEIMER, JR.
- NOTES
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- FREDERICK DOMINIC ROSSINI
- AT THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS (1928–50)
- AT THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (1950–60)
- AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME (1960-71)
- AT RICE UNIVERSITY (1971–78)
- THE LATE YEARS (1978–90)
- HONORS AND AWARDS
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- THEODORE WILLIAM SCHULTZ
- REFERENCES
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- JOHN CHARLES WALKER
- GIAN-CARLO WICK
- SELECTED BIBLOGRAPHY
- THE ROME PERIOD
- THE AMERICAN PERIOD