Biographical memoirs. Volume 69 / National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scientists--United States--Biography.

Scientists.

Science--United States--Biography.

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (436 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Biographic Memoirs Volume 69 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.

Contents:

Intro

Biographical Memoirs

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Kenneth Ewart Boulding

NOTES

Selected Bibliography

Solomon J. Buchsbaum

Albert Hewett Coons

William Francis Giauque

Susumu Hagiwara

Bernhard Haurwitz

EARLY YEARS

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA (1932-41)

MIGRATION TO THE WEST

Joseph Paxson Iddings

EDUCATION

CAREER COURSE DETERMINED

HIGHEST EXPECTATIONS

MAPPING YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK

RELUCTANT TEACHER

ROCK CLASSIFICATION

PROGRAM FOR EXPERIMENTAL PETROLOGY

TEXTBOOK PREPARATIONS

THE SUDDEN COLLAPSE

FREE TO WANDER

SECOND CIRCLING OF THE GLOBE

HONORS

SCHOLAR AND GENTLEMAN

Herman Moritz Kalckar

Israel Michael Lerner

Thomas Seward Lovering

Nicholas Ulrich Mayall

LIFE HISTORY

LICK OBSERVATORY

WORLD WAR II

THE 120-INCH TELESCOPE

POSTWAR LICK RESEARCH

KITT PEAK NATIONAL OBSERVATORY

NOTE

Edwin Mattison McMillan

THE EARLY PREWAR PERIOD

STUDIES ON TRANSURANIC ELEMENTS

MILITARY WORK DURING WORLD WAR II

ACCELERATOR PHYSICS

LABORATORY DIRECTOR

CONCLUSION

Hermann Rahn

CONTRIBUTIONS TO REPRODUCTIVE PHYSIOLOGY OF SNAKES AND BIRDS, 1937-43

PULMONARY MECHANICS AND BLOOD-GAS EXCHANGE

YEARS WITH WALLACE FENN, 1941-56

BLOOD-GAS EXCHANGE AT HIGH AND LOW PRESSURES

PHYSIOLOGY OF DIVING IN THE AMA (DIVING WOMEN) OF KOREA AND JAPAN, 1956-68

GAS EXCHANGE IN AVIAN EGGS AND ITS ROLE IN EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT, 1968-90

SERVICE TO SCIENCE: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL.

TEACHER, SCHOLAR, AND GENTLEMAN

SELECTED AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

Tracy Morton Sonneborn

PERSONAL HISTORY

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Stenostomum

Colpidium

The Life Cycle Of Paramecium

Mating-Type Inheritance

Killers

Serotypes

Plasmagenese

The Cortex

Senescence And The Life Cycle

The Species Problem

Genes

Trichocysts

Alexander Spoehr

Eliot Stellar

Julian Haynes Steward

FURTHER READINGS

Harald Ulrik Sverdrup

Champ B. Tanner

THE FORMATIVE YEARS

THE SOIL PHYSICS YEARS

THE MICROMETEOROLOGY PHASE

THE PLANT PHYSIOLOGY PHASE

THE FINAL YEARS

Harland Goff Wood

Selected Bibliography.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786610192861

9781280192869

1280192860

9780309588577

030958857X

9780585037691

0585037698

OCLC:

44955331