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Biographical memoirs. Volume 50.
- 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 (405 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1979.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Biographic Memoirs Volume 50 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
- Contents
- Preface
- Detlev Wulf Bronk
- MOTIVATIONS, OPPORTUNITIES, AND DECISIONS
- RESEARCH, BIOPHYSICS, AND THE UNITY OF SCIENCE
- A REVERSIBLE TRANSITION, THEN PHYSIOLOGISTS IN WAR
- PRIORITY: PERSONAL RESEARCH OR SCIENCE FOR HUMAN WELFARE
- IN SUPPORT OF RESEARCH AND THE SCHOLARLY LIFE
- IN SERVICE TO SCIENCE AND THE NATION
- FREEDOM FOR INQUIRY
- A COMMUNITY OF SCHOLARS WHO ARE SCIENTISTS
- MONUMENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Bibliography
- Vannevar Bush
- HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
- PROFESSIONAL AND HONORARY SOCIETIES
- SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS
- AWARDS
- BOARDS
- Rufus Cole
- Degrees
- Student Honor Societies
- Professional Appointments
- Awards
- Memberships
- Wallace Osgood Fenn
- THE SCIENTIST
- CONTRIBUTIONS TO MUSCLE AND ELECTROLYTE PHYSIOLOGY
- CONTRIBUTIONS TO RESPIRATION PHYSIOLOGY
- CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PHYSIOLOGY OF SPACE AND OCEANS
- SERVICE TO SOCIETIES
- THE MAN AND TEACHER
- AWARDS, HONORS, AND DISTINCTIONS
- Chronology
- Memberships (Selected)
- Honorary Memberships
- Honorary Degrees
- Paul Darwin Foote
- William Zev Hassid
- Frank Lappin Horsfall, Jr.
- Otto Laporte
- CHRONOLOGY
- Philip Duryee McMaster
- Maria Goeppert Mayer
- Arnold Rice Rich
- Richard Edwin Shope
- William Hammond Wright
- Acknowledgments for the Photographs.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610246328
- 9781280246326
- 1280246324
- 9780309598989
- 0309598982
- 9780585272665
- 0585272662
- OCLC:
- 70772867
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