Biographical Memoirs

Biographical Memoirs

Volume 73

  • Publisher: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 9780309060318
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780309591683
  • Place of publication:  United States
  • Year of digital publication: 1998
  • Month: June
  • Pages: 388
  • Language: English

Biographic Memoirs: Volume 73 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
  • Charles Greeley Abbot May 31, 1872–December 17, 1973
    • NOTES
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Carl David Anderson September 3, 1905–January 11, 1991
    • Selected Bibliography
  • William Osgood Aydelotte September 1, 1910–January 17, 1996
    • EARLY LIFE AND TRAINING
    • PROFESSIONAL POSTS AND HONORS
    • PERSONALITY
    • THE IOWA HISTORY DEPARTMENT
    • RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS
    • OTHER PUBLICATIONS
    • SIGNIFICANCE OF AYDELOTTE'S RESEARCH
    • NOTES
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Frank Ambrose Beach April 13, 1911—June 15, 1988
    • PERSONAL HISTORY
    • PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
    • EARLY RESEARCH
    • BEHAVIOR
    • BEHAVIORAL ENDOCRINOLOGY
    • HUMANS
    • NOTES
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Walker Bleakney February 8, 1901–January 15, 1992
    • AWARDS AND HONORS
    • NOTES
    • Selected Bibliography
  • James Frederick Bonner September 1, 1910—September 13, 1996
    • FAMILY MATTERS
    • STUDENT AND POSTDOCTORAL YEARS
    • PROFESSIONAL CAREER
      • Growth Substances Including Studies of the Cell Wall
      • Vitamins as Root-Growth Hormones
      • Photoperiodism and the Physiology of Flowering
      • Rubber
      • The "New Plant Biochemistry"
      • Chromosomes and How They Work
      • James's Philosophy: Far-flung Pastures
    • NOTES
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Rodney Lee Cool March 8, 1920–April 16, 1988
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Louis Barkhouse Flexner January 7, 1902—March 29, 1996
    • REFERENCES
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Reynold Clayton Fuson June 1, 1895—August 4, 1979
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Charles Roy Henderson April 1, 1911–March 14, 1989
    • PERSONAL HISTORY
      • Farm Boy, Athlete, Scholar
      • Sports And Music
      • Nutrition, Extension, And Marriage
      • Academic Heroes
    • PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
      • The Mixed Linear Model Problem
      • Ph.D. Thesis
      • Combining Least Squares And Selection Index
      • The Mixed Model Equations
      • Inverting a Special Matrix
      • The Selection Bias Problem
      • Young Sire Testing Programs
    • HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
    • REFERENCES
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Johannes Holtfreter January 9, 1901–November 13, 1992
    • EDUCATION AND EARLY LIFE
    • BREAKTHROUGH YEARS
    • UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH
    • MCGILL UNIVERSITY
    • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    • NOTES
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Carl Iver Hovland June 12, 1912—April 16, 1961
    • MY OWN RECOLLECTIONS OF HOVLAND
    • FAMILY HISTORY
    • PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
    • CONCLUSION
    • NOTES
    • REFERENCES
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Carson Dunning Jeffries March 22, 1922–October 18, 1995
    • PERSONAL HISTORY
    • PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
      • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Electron Spin Resonance, 1952–57
      • Optical Pumping and Dynamic Nuclear Polarization In Solids, 1956–57
      • Electron-Hole Droplets in Semiconductors, 1972–83
      • Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos in Solid State Systems, 1981–95
      • Nonlinear Dynamics and Harmonic Generation in High TC Superconductors, 1987–95
    • GRADUATE STUDENTS AND TEACHING
    • SCIENTIST AS ARTIST
    • HONORS
    • NOTES
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Frederick George Keyes June 24, 1885–April 14, 1976
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Heinrich Klüver May 25, 1897–February 8, 1979
    • PERSONAL HISTORY
    • PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
      • Visual Psychology And Psychoparmachology
      • Animal Behavior and Occipital Lobe Lesions
      • Temporal Lobe Lesions and the Klüver-Bucy Syndrome
      • Porphyrins and the Kluver-Barrera Stain
    • CONCLUSION
    • HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
      • Professional Appointments
    • ACADEMIES, HONORS, AND AWARDS
    • NOTES
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Lewis Gibson Longsworth November 16, 1904—August 8, 1981
    • THE EARLY YEARS
    • FORTY-TWO YEARS AT THE ROCKEFELLER INSTITUTE
    • THEORY OF MOVING BOUNDARY ELECTROPHORESIS
    • ELECTION TO THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    • DIFFUSION OF ELECTROLYTES AND PROTEINS
    • NOTES
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Alfred Ezra Mirsky October 17, 1900–June 19, 1974
    • Bibliography
  • Melvin Spencer Newman March 10, 1908–May 30, 1993
    • PERSONAL HISTORY
    • PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
    • REMINISCENCES
    • Selected Bibliography
  • Alfred Henry Sturtevant November 21, 1891—April 5, 1970
    • Bibliography
  • William Gould Young July 30, 1902—July 5, 1980
    • NOTES
    • Selected Bibliography

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