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Biographical memoirs. Volume 53.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scientists--United States.
- Scientists.
- Science--United States--Biography.
- Science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (408 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1982.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Biographic Memoirs Volume 53 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
- Roger Adams
- Bibliography
- Alfred Blalock
- MEDICAL EDUCATION
- RESEARCH AT VANDERBILT
- THE BALTIMORE PERIOD
- HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
- Degrees
- Honorary Degrees
- Hospital and University Appointments
- Professional and Honorary Societies
- Foreign Societies
- Committees
- Editorships
- Awards
- Selected Bibliography
- Ira Sprague Bowen
- FAMILY BACKGROUND AND SCHOOLING
- RESEARCH AND TEACHING
- THE 200-INCH TELESCOPE PROJECT
- THE WAR YEARS
- OBSERVATORY ADMINISTRATION
- Professional Appointments
- Professional And Honorary Societies
- Ralph Erskine Cleland
- Academic Positions
- Editorial Positions
- Professional And Honorary Affiliations
- William David Coolidge
- REFERENCES
- Medals and Awards
- Society Memberships
- Honorary Memberships
- Corresponding Memberships
- PATENTS
- Alfred Edwards Emerson
- Ralph Waldo Gerard
- John Heysham Gibbon, Jr.
- Military Service
- Visiting Professorships and Lectureships
- Learned Society Memberships
- Editorial Board Memberships
- Committee Memberships
- Chester Ray Longwell
- Alfred Sherwood Romer
- John Clarke Slater
- Stephen P. Timoshenko
- THE EARLY YEARS AT WESTINGHOUSE
- CONCLUSION
- RELATED BOOKS
- Richard Baldwin Turner
- THE SCIENTIFIC WORK OF R. B. TURNER
- David Locke Webster II
- FAMILY DATA
- CHILDHOOD.
- EDUCATION AND RELATED MATTERS
- RESEARCH BEGINNINGS
- WORLD WAR I
- TO STANFORD UNIVERSITY
- STANFORD PROBLEMS AND EVENTS
- THE TEACHING PHYSICIST
- RESEARCH IN X-RAY PHYSICS
- WORLD WAR II
- WRITING TASKS
- RETIREMENT AND THEREAFTER
- SAILING AND FLYING
- IN CONCLUSION
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610246014
- 9781280246012
- 1280246014
- 9780309599047
- 0309599040
- 9780585279138
- 0585279136
- OCLC:
- 45730135
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