Biographical memoirs. Volume 60.

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 (427 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Biographic Memoirs Volume 60 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

JOSEPH HALL BODINE

EARLY LIFE

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY, THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

Melanoplus differentialis

The Diapause Factor Theory

Oxygen Consumption of Developing Eggs

HONORS AND SERVICE TO SCIENCE

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

ARTHUR CLAY COPE

BRYN MAWR (1934-1940)

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (1945-1966)

SCIENTIFIC WORK

Cycloöctatetraene

Transannular Hydrogen Migration and Valence Tautomerism

Optical Isomers

SERVICE TO THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY

HONORS AND AWARDS

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY1

PHILIP JACKSON DARLINGTON, JR.

EDUCATION AND EARLY LIFE

DARLINGTON IN THE FIELD

CARABID BEETLES, MIMICRY, AND FLIGHTLESSNESS

THE ORIGIN OF DOMINANT VERTEBRATE GROUPS

IN CONCLUSION

JOHN FRANKLIN ENDERS

EDUCATION AND EARLY CAREER

MICROBIOLOGY AT HARVARD AND THE ZINSSER INFLUENCE (1925-1946)

BOSTON CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER (1947-1972)

THE PRIVATE MAN

SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS

Pathogenic Bacteria and the Pneumococcus (1929-1937)

Rickettsiae, Tissue Cultures, and Viruses (1937-1947)

Poliomyelitis Virus (1948-1952)

The Measles Vaccine (1954-1960)

Virus and Host Cell: Interferon and Viral Oncogenesis (1959-1976)

MAJOR AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

EDWARD CURTIS FRANKLIN

LOVE OF NATURE

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS (1888-1903)

STANFORD YEARS (1903-1937)

SELIG HECHT

PHOTORECEPTION STUDIES AND TRAVEL (1917-1926)

COLUMBIA YEARS (1926-1947)

War Work

Educating the Public

VISION RESEARCH

Photoreception

Color Vision

Measuring Light Photons and Rod Stimulation

THEORIST, WRITER, TEACHER

LIBBIE HENRIETTA HYMAN.

THE SCIENTIFIC WORK OF LIBBIE HENRIETTA HYMAN

FRANCIS WHEELER LOOMIS

EDUCATION AND EARLY YEARS

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: BAND SPECTRA OF DIATOMIC MOLECULES

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA

WORLD WAR II: THE RADIATION LABORATORY AT MIT

RETURN TO ILLINOIS

JACOB MARSCHAK

THE 1920S: THE ECONOMICS OF INDUSTRY

THE 1930S: DEMAND AND CAPITAL FORMATION

New York (1938-1943)

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO AND THE COWLES COMMISSION FOR RESEARCHIN ECONOMICS (1943-1955)

The Economics of Information and Team Theory

Stochastic Decision

HONORS AND LATER LIFE

DONALD HOWARD MENZEL

COLLEGE DAYS AND A CHANGE OF PLAN

WIDE NEW HORIZONS AT PRINCETON

AN OPPORTUNITY AT LICK OBSERVATORY

PREWAR DAYS AT HARVARD OBSERVATORY

TEACHER, DIPLOMAT, FRIEND

WORLD WAR II AND ITS IMPACT

AFTER THE WAR

DIRECTOR OF THE HARVARD COLLEGE OBSERVATORY, LATER YEARS

DONALD H. MENZEL-THE MAN

NATHAN M. NEWMARK

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

THE WORLD'S EARTHQUAKE ENGINEER

LARS ONSAGER

NORWAY (1903-1925)

ZÜRICH (1926-1928)

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (1928)

BROWN UNIVERSITY (1928-1933)

YALE-THE PREWAR YEARS (1933-1939)

YALE-THE MIDDLE YEARS (1940-1947)

YALE-THE LATER YEARS (1949-1972)

CORAL GABLES (1972-1976)

RETROSPECT

APPOINTMENTS

DEGREES

HONORARY DEGREES

MEDALS AND PRIZES

ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS AND DISTINCTIONS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ALEXANDER PETRUNKEVITCH

THE UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG (1899-1903)

The Honeybee

Petrunkevitch's Fixing Fluid

YALE UNIVERSITY (1910-1964)

POLITICAL ACTIVIST

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

Oligocene Amber Spiders.

Paleozoic Arachnids

PHILOSOPHER

AWARDS AND HONORS

KENNETH BRYAN RAPER

WASHINGTON, D.C.: THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE'S DIVISION OF SOILMICROBIOLOGY

HARVARD YEARS (1933-1935)

PEORIA (1940-1953)

Penicillin

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN AT MADISON (1953-1987)

HONORS AND PUBLIC SERVICE

CONCLUSION

HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS

BOARDS AND COMMITTEES

Selected Bibliography

FRANCIS W. REICHELDERFER

THE NORWEGIAN SCHOOL AND NAVY AEROLOGY

BERGEN, NORWAY (1931)

CHIEF OF THE U.S. WEATHER BUREAU

Cloud Seeding and Rainmaking

Computers and Numerical Weather Forecasting

Satellites, Radiation Sensing, and International Meteorology

WILLIAM JACOB ROBBINS

Christine Chapman Robbins and the Robbins Family

THE INTERIM YEARS: 1916-1919

THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI (1919-1938)

THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN (1938-1958)

Cleaning House

Harding Research Laboratory

FAIRCHILD TROPICAL GARDEN, FLORIDA

RESEARCH

Root Tips

pH

Fungi (1935-1945)

The Rockefeller University

EDUCATOR AND TEACHER

FISHERMAN: QUARTET CAMP, MAINE

LAST DAYS

MAN AND SCIENTIST

SERVICE TO THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

GEORGE GAYLORD SIMPSON

AS I KNEW HIM

A BIT OF FAMILY HISTORY

THE EXPLORATORY SCIENTIST

The Biogeography of the Americas

Theories of Evolution

Taxonomy

Fieldwork

HISTORIAN AND EDUCATOR

THE SOCIETY OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES

OWEN HARDING WANGENSTEEN

SURGEON-IN-CHIEF, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA HOSPITALS (1930-1967).

WANGENSTEEN AS MEDICAL HISTORIAN

HONORS, AWARDS, AND SERVICE TO SCIENCE

HENRY STEPHENS WASHINGTON

IGNEOUS ROCK NOMENCLATURE AND CLASSIFICATION

CROSS, IDDINGS, PIRSSON, AND WASHINGTON: THE CIPW NORM

THE DARK YEARS (1906-1912)

GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY OF THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON

HONORS AND SERVICE TO THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY

WASHINGTON THE SCIENTIST AS HIS CONTEMPORARIES SAW HIM

WASHINGTON THE MAN AS HIS CONTEMPORARIES SAW HIM

REFERENCES

Post Scriptum

HOWEL WILLIAMS

EDUCATION AND CAREER

FIELD WORK AND MAJOR PUBLICATIONS

CUMULATIVE INDEX.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786610204014

9781280204012

128020401X

9780309580175

030958017X

9780585272832

0585272832

OCLC:

45732728