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Biographical memoirs. Volume 79.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scientists--United States.
- Scientists.
- Biography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (419 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington : National Academy of Sciences, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Biographic Memoirs Volume 79 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
- HENRY G.BOOKER
- AWARDS
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- GEORGE HERMANN BUCHI
- NOTES
- HORACE ROBERT BYERS
- EARLY YEARS
- BYERS MEETS ROSSBY
- BYERS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
- BYERS THE ORGANIZER AND COMMUNICATOR FOR METEOROLOGY
- BYERS THE SCIENTIST
- BYERS THE INDIVIDUAL
- SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
- GERALD MAURICE CLEMENCE
- YOUTH AND EDUCATION
- EARLY CAREER AT THE U.S. NAVAL OBSERVATORY
- TRANSFER TO THE NAUTICAL ALMANAC OFFICE
- THE GOLDEN YEARS FOR CELESTIAL MECHANICS
- OFFICES, AWARDS, AND HONORS
- THE SCIENTIST AND THE FAMILY MAN
- JULIUS H.COMROE, JR.
- RAFAEL LORENTE DE NO
- PERSONAL HISTORY
- PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
- SAMUEL EILENBERG
- HENRI CARTAN
- SAUNDERS MAC LANE
- ALEX HELLER
- PETER FREYD
- HYMAN BASS
- SOME PH.D. STUDENTS OF SAMUEL EILENBERG
- REFERENCES
- JORDI FOLCH-PI
- THE EARLY YEARS
- THE ROCKEFELLER YEARS
- THE TRANSITION TO MCLEAN HOSPITAL
- THE SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM AT THE MCLEAN HOSPITAL RESEARCH LABORATORY (BIOCHEMISTRY)
- A STATESMAN OF SCIENCE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ROBERT HOFSTADTER
- MARY ELLEN JONES
- THE EARLY YEARS WITH LIPMANN
- A YOUNG INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATOR STUDYING PYRIMIDINE BIOSYNTHESIS IN EUKARYOTES
- ASPARTATE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASES IN BACTERIA
- MULTIFUNCTIONAL PROTEINS
- PROLINE SYNTHESIS
- MECHANISM OF OMP DECARBOXYLASE
- SIMON S. KUZNETS
- THE CONTEXT OF KUZNETS'S WORK
- NATIONAL INCOME ACCOUNTING
- SERVICE DURING WORLD WAR II
- MODERN ECONOMIC GROWTH
- THE ROLE OF POPULATION GROWTH
- MEASUREMENT IN ECONOMICS.
- KUZNETS'S LEGACY
- FRANKLIN ASBURY LONG
- HANS JOACHIM MULLER-EBERHARD
- DANIEL NATHANS
- WILLIAM HARRISON RIKER
- BUILDING A POSITIVE THEORY OF POLITICS
- THE ROCHESTER TRANSFORMATION: INSTITUTION BUILDING
- RECOGNITION
- RESEARCH IN THE LATER YEARS
- THE MAN
- RICHARD C. STARR
- TAXA NAMED IN HONOR OF RICHARD STARR
- DEAN STANLEY TARBELL
- BUILDING THE ROCHESTER FACULTY
- HELPING TO RAISE A FAMILY
- CONTINUING A PROGRAM OF RESEARCH AND TEACHING
- HOWARD M. TEMIN
- THE PROVIRUS HYPOTHESIS
- MULTIPLICATION-STIMULATING ACTIVITY (MSA)
- AN EVOLVING STYLE
- STRUCTURE OF THE PROVIRUS
- SYNTHESIS OF THE PROVIRUS
- HUMAN RETROVIRUSES
- BENTON J. UNDERWOOD
- OLIVER REYNOLDS WULF
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 9786610184323
- 9781280184321
- 1280184329
- 9780309565554
- 0309565553
- OCLC:
- 320320107
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