Biographical memoirs. volume 74 / 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 (396 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Biographic Memoirs Volume 74 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

Albert Francis Birch

LIFE IN WASHINGTON D.C. AND AS A HARVARD UNDERGRADUATE

FRANCIS BIRCH AND PERCY BRIDGMAN

GEOPHYSICS AT HARVARD

WORLD WAR II AND LITTLE BOY

HEAT FLOW AND RADIOACTIVITY OF THE EARTH

ELASTICITY AND CONSTITUTION OF THE EARTH'S INTERIOR

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND RECOGNITION

NOTES

Selected Bibliography

Gregory Breit

PERSONAL HISTORY

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Warren Lee Butler

CHRONOLOGY

AWARDS AND HONORS

George Brownlee Craig, Jr.

Scott Ellsworth Forbush

EARLY YEARS

1926-32

1932-40

1940-45

1945-57

1957-58

1958-84

GENERAL COMMENTS

Ross Gunn

David Harker

Atmospheric Nitrogen Corp. (1930-33)

Caltech: The Harker Section (1933-36)

Johns Hopkins Years: The Donnay-Harker Law (1936-41)

General Electric: The Harker-Kasper Inequalities (1941-50)

Brooklyn Poly Years: The Harker Construction and Ribonuclease (1950-59)

Roswell Park Cancer Institute: The Structure of Ribonuclease (1959-76)

The Final Years: Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute (1977-91)

Yandell Henderson

EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION

PHYSIOLOGICAL LABORATORY, YALE MEDICAL SCHOOL

PROFESSOR OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY, YALE UNIVERSITY

James Lynn Hoard

Joseph Kaplan

LABORATORY STUDIES

SERVICE TO GEOPHYSICS

Stephen W. Kuffler

EDUCATION AND EARLY LIFE

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

MAJOR RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS

Synaptic Transmission-First Studies

Slow Muscle Fibers and Muscle Spindles.

Retinal Ganglion Cells

Excitation and Inhibition of Crustacean Stretch Receptor

Demonstration of Gaba as an Inhibitory Transmitter

Presynaptic Inhibition

Physiology of Glial Cells

Synaptic Transmission

STEVE IN THE LABORATORY

HONORS AND AWARDS

FAMILY

CONCLUSION

Anton Lang

Samuel Colville Lind

THE LEIPZIG LABORATORY (1904-1905)

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (1905-13)

U.S. BUREAU OF MINES (1913-25)

FIXED NITROGEN RESEARCH LABORATORY (1925-26)

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (1926-47)

LATER YEARS

Alfred Otto Carl Nier

EARLY YEARS (1911-36)

AT HARVARD (1936-38)

PRE-WAR YEARS AT MINNESOTA (1938-40)

THE WAR YEARS (1942-45)

RETURN TO MINNESOTA (1945-94)

GEOCHRONOLOGY AND ISOTOPIC GEOCHEMISTRY (1946-62)

MASS MEASUREMENTS OF NUCLIDES (1951-63)

UPPER ATMOSPHERIC AND SPACE PHYSICS (1964-85)

NOBLE GAS MICROANALYSIS (1983-94)

NIER AS A PERSON

REFERENCES

Clair Cameron Patterson

Berta V. Scharrer

EARLY LIFE

BIRTH OF THE NEUROSECRETION HYPOTHESIS

STARTING OVER

PHYSIOLOGICAL RELEVANCE OF NEUROSECRETION

ON TO EINSTEIN

LATER CAREER

NOTE

Frederick Emmons Terman

Victor Chandler Twitty

Frits Warmolt Went

Eugene Paul Wigner

EARLY HISTORY

TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE, BERLIN

RETURN TO BUDAPEST

RETURN TO BERLIN

SHIFT TO GÖTTINGEN

WIGNER'S SOLILOQUY

PRINCETON BECKONS

PREWAR YEARS OF RESEARCH

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, 1936-38

NUCLEAR FISSION

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH, CLINTON LABORATORIES, OAK RIDGE

REMAINING ACADEMIC YEARS

RETIREMENT.

NOTES.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786610186952

9780309173858

030917385X

9781280186950

128018695X

9780309591867

0309591864

9780585273617

0585273618

OCLC:

45730977