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Biographical memoirs. Volume 72 / 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 (394 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Biographic Memoirs Volume 72 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
- HERBERT L. ANDERSON
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ARCHIBALD PHILIP BARD
- SUBRAHMANYAN CHANDRASEKHAR
- ROBERT BRAINARD COREY
- PERSONAL HISTORY
- PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
- NOTES
- ALBERT DORFMAN
- LEE ALVIN DUBRIDGE
- YOUTH
- LEADERSHIP
- THE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
- LATER YEARS
- SELECTED HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
- HONORARY DEGREES
- LEO GOLDBERG
- RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS
- SCIENTIFIC DIPLOMACY
- LOUIS PLACK HAMMETT
- PERSONAL
- SCIENCE
- THE ACIDITY FUNCTION
- PROTONATION OF CARBONYL GROUPS
- THE HAMMETT EQUATION
- PHYSICAL-ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
- THE EXPLOSIVES RESEARCH LABORATORY
- THE POSTWAR YEARS
- EMIL WALTER HAURY
- DENDROCHRONOLOGY
- GILA PUEBLO
- UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
- THE ARIZONA STATE MUSEUM
- REGIONAL AND NATIONAL INFLUENCE
- RESEARCH ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- REFERENCES
- POSTHUMOUS PUBLICATIONS
- RAYMOND GEORGE HERB
- JAMES GORDON HORSFALL
- CHILDHOOD
- COLLEGE
- FUNGICIDES
- BORDEAUX MIXTURE DIED AND FELL OVER
- EXPERIMENTER
- EPIDEMIOLOGY
- THE CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION
- FUN WITH WORDS
- THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND SCIENCE POLICY
- EMIL THOMAS KAISER
- EARLY YEARS
- SEMISYNTHETIC ENZYMES
- SYNTHESIS OF PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS
- AMPHIPHILIC PEPTIDES
- SITE-DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS
- SCIENTIFIC SIGNIFICANCE
- COURAGE
- DONALD WILLIAM KERST
- THE BETATRON
- THE MURA YEARS
- PLASMA PHYSICS
- PERSONAL DATA
- PAUL JACKSON KRAMER.
- THE EARLY YEARS
- THE MOVE TO THE SOUTH
- THE LABORATORY FLOURISHES
- NATIONAL ATTENTION
- THE FATEFUL SABBATIC
- THE BOOKS
- IN CONCLUSION
- Milton Stanley Livingston
- WILLIAM WILSON MORGAN
- EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION
- SPECTRAL CLASSIFICATION
- SPIRAL ARMS
- PHOTOELECTRIC PHOTOMETRY AND THE MK SYSTEM
- STELLAR POPULATIONS
- GALAXIES
- CAREER
- OTHER INTERESTS
- CONCLUSION
- MARCUS MORTON RHOADES
- HENRY STOMMEL
- EDUCATION AND EARLY PROFESSIONAL YEARS
- THEORY OF THE GENERAL CIRCULATION OF THE OCEAN
- OBSERVATIONS OF THE OCEAN CIRCULATION
- MIXING AND MICROSTRUCTURE
- TIDES, ELECTROMAGNETIC METHODS, EDDIES, ESTUARIES
- ACADEMIC YEARS
- JOSEPH E. VARNER
- GROWING UP IN OHIO AND STARTING A FAMILY
- THE FIRST TEN YEARS: FROM ORGANIC ACIDS TO ENZYME SYNTHESIS
- CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY AND THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES
- HORMONAL CONTROL OF ENZYME SYNTHESIS
- HYDROXYPROLINE-RICH GLYCOPROTEINS AND EXTENSIN
- TISSUE PRINTING, LIGNIN BIOSYNTHESIS AND CELL DEATH (REPRISE)
- MENTORING
- PUBLIC SERVICE
- PAUL ALFRED WEISS
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786610191604
- 9781280191602
- 1280191600
- 9780309590648
- 0309590647
- 9780585220239
- 0585220239
- OCLC:
- 70753722
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