Biographical Memoirs

Biographical Memoirs

Volume 77

  • Publisher: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 9780309066440
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780309593731
  • Place of publication:  United States
  • Year of digital publication: 1999
  • Month: October
  • Pages: 357
  • Language: English

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
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • PHILIP PACY COHEN
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • 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
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • ROBERT HENRY DICKE
    • PERSONAL HISTORY
    • PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
    • NOTES
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • WALTHER FREDERICK GOEBEL
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • 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
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • JOHN GAMBLE KIRKWOOD
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • 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
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • JAMES OLDS
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • 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
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • GIAN-CARLO WICK
    • SELECTED BIBLOGRAPHY
      • THE ROME PERIOD
      • THE AMERICAN PERIOD

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