Biographical Memoirs

Biographical Memoirs

Volume 79

  • Publisher: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 9780309075725
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780309565554
  • Place of publication:  United States
  • Year of digital publication: 2001
  • Month: July
  • Pages: 420
  • Language: English

Biographic Memoirs: Volume 79 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
  • HENRY G.BOOKER
    • AWARDS
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • GEORGE HERMANN BUCHI
    • NOTES
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • HORACE ROBERT BYERS
    • EARLY YEARS
      • BYERS MEETS ROSSBY
      • BYERS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
      • BYERS THE ORGANIZER AND COMMUNICATOR FOR METEOROLOGY
      • BYERS THE SCIENTIST
      • BYERS THE INDIVIDUAL
      • AWARDS
      • SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
      • NOTES
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • GERALD MAURICE CLEMENCE
    • YOUTH AND EDUCATION
      • EARLY CAREER AT THE U.S. NAVAL OBSERVATORY
      • TRANSFER TO THE NAUTICAL ALMANAC OFFICE
      • THE GOLDEN YEARS FOR CELESTIAL MECHANICS
      • OFFICES, AWARDS, AND HONORS
      • THE SCIENTIST AND THE FAMILY MAN
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • JULIUS H.COMROE, JR.
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • RAFAEL LORENTE DE NO
    • PERSONAL HISTORY
      • PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
      • NOTES
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • SAMUEL EILENBERG
    • HENRI CARTAN
      • SAUNDERS MAC LANE
      • ALEX HELLER
      • PETER FREYD
      • HYMAN BASS
    • SOME PH.D. STUDENTS OF SAMUEL EILENBERG
      • REFERENCES
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • JORDI FOLCH-PI
    • THE EARLY YEARS
      • THE ROCKEFELLER YEARS
      • THE TRANSITION TO MCLEAN HOSPITAL
      • THE SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM AT THE MCLEAN HOSPITAL RESEARCH LABORATORY (BIOCHEMISTRY)
      • A STATESMAN OF SCIENCE
      • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
      • NOTES
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • ROBERT HOFSTADTER
    • NOTES
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • MARY ELLEN JONES
    • THE EARLY YEARS WITH LIPMANN
      • A YOUNG INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATOR STUDYING PYRIMIDINE BIOSYNTHESIS IN EUKARYOTES
      • ASPARTATE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASES IN BACTERIA
      • MULTIFUNCTIONAL PROTEINS
      • PROLINE SYNTHESIS
      • MECHANISM OF OMP DECARBOXYLASE
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • SIMON S. KUZNETS
    • THE CONTEXT OF KUZNETS’S WORK
      • NATIONAL INCOME ACCOUNTING
      • SERVICE DURING WORLD WAR II
      • MODERN ECONOMIC GROWTH
      • THE ROLE OF POPULATION GROWTH
      • MEASUREMENT IN ECONOMICS
      • KUZNETS’S LEGACY
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • FRANKLIN ASBURY LONG
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • HANS JOACHIM MULLER-EBERHARD
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • DANIEL NATHANS
    • NOTES
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • WILLIAM HARRISON RIKER
    • THE EARLY YEARS
      • BUILDING A POSITIVE THEORY OF POLITICS
      • THE ROCHESTER TRANSFORMATION: INSTITUTION BUILDING
      • RECOGNITION
      • RESEARCH IN THE LATER YEARS
      • THE MAN
      • REFERENCES
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • RICHARD C. STARR
    • TAXA NAMED IN HONOR OF RICHARD STARR
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • DEAN STANLEY TARBELL
    • BUILDING THE ROCHESTER FACULTY
      • HELPING TO RAISE A FAMILY
      • CONTINUING A PROGRAM OF RESEARCH AND TEACHING
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • HOWARD M. TEMIN
    • THE PROVIRUS HYPOTHESIS
      • MULTIPLICATION-STIMULATING ACTIVITY (MSA)
      • AN EVOLVING STYLE
      • STRUCTURE OF THE PROVIRUS
      • SYNTHESIS OF THE PROVIRUS
      • HUMAN RETROVIRUSES
      • NOTES
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • BENTON J. UNDERWOOD
    • NOTES
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • OLIVER REYNOLDS WULF
    • NOTES
    • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

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