Biographical Memoirs -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Biographical Memoirs -- Frederic C. Bartter September 10, 1914-May 5, 1983 -- EARLY LIFE -- ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH -- PERSONAL QUALITIES -- HONORS -- CHRONOLOGY -- Postgraduate Training And Fellowships -- Professional Appointments -- Memberships -- Selected Bibliography -- George Wells Beadle October 22, 1903-June 9, 1989 -- EDUCATION AND EARLY LIFE -- DROSOPHILA STUDIES: CROSSING OVER, VERMILION AND CINNABAR -- BEADLE AND TATUM -- NEUROSPORA CRASSA AND GENE ACTION -- BEADLE AS LABORATORY HEAD -- CHAIRMAN OF THE DIVISION OF BIOLOGY, CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY -- HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS -- Honorary Degrees -- Doctor of Science -- Legum Doctor (LL. D.) -- Litterarum Humaniorum Doctor (L.H.D.) -- Doctor of Public Service -- Awards -- Professional And Honorary Societies -- Selected Bibliography -- Solomon A. Berson April 22, 1918-April 11, 1972 -- Selected Bibliography -- Raymond Thayer Birge March 13, 1887-March 22, 1980 -- EARLY LIFE -- BERKELEY -- CHAIRMAN OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS -- HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS -- RAYMOND BIRGE, THE MAN -- Selected Bibliography -- William Henry Chandler July 31, 1878-October 29, 1970 -- EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION -- TREES IN TWO CLIMATES -- Death by Freezing -- The Rest Period -- FRUIT TREE NUTRITION-THE ZINC STORY -- REFLECTIONS, CONVICTIONS, AND FAITH -- Selected Bibliography -- Gertrude Mary Cox January 13, 1900-October 17, 1978 -- EARLY YEARS -- SOUTHERN VENTURE -- PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND HONORS -- TRAVELS -- CLOSING REMARKS -- Selected Bibliography -- Conrad Arnold Elvehjem May 27, 1901-July 27, 1962 -- EARLY YEARS -- RETURN TO WISCONSIN -- NICOTINIC ACID -- THE B VITAMINS AND AMINO ACIDS -- PUBLIC SERVICE -- UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION -- AWARDS -- Selected Bibliography.

Gottfried Samuel Fraenkel April 23, 1901-October 26, 1984 -- EARLY LIFE -- BRITAIN -- AMERICA -- CLOSING REMARKS -- HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS -- Selected Bibliography -- Haldan Keffer Hartline December 22, 1903-March 18, 1983 -- EDUCATION AND EARLY LIFE -- PROFESSIONAL CAREER -- MAJOR SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS -- Single Optic Nerve Fibers -- The Receptive Field -- The Generator Potential -- The Hartline-Ratliff Equations -- A SENSE OF HUMOR -- HONORS AND AWARDS -- HOME AND FAMILY -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- Selected Bibliography -- Mark Kac August 16, 1914-October 25, 1984 -- AMERICA -- MATHEMATICAL WORK -- Independence and the Normal Law -- Brownian Motion and Integration in Function Space -- Statistical Mechanics -- PERSONAL APPRECIATION -- HONORS, PRIZES, AND SERVICE -- Selected Bibliography -- Aldo Starker Leopold October 22, 1913-August 23, 1983 -- PROFESSIONAL AND PUBLIC SERVICE -- HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS -- Selected Bibliography -- Manfred Martin Mayer June 15, 1916-September 18, 1984 -- EDUCATION AND EARLY LIFE -- SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTION -- TEACHER AND MENTOR -- HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS -- Professional And Academic Positions -- Learned Societies -- Honorary Memberships -- Other Professional Activities -- Prizes And Awards -- Selected Bibliography -- Walsh McDermott October 24, 1909-October 17, 1981 -- EDUCATION AND EARLY LIFE -- THE MCDERMOTT LABORATORY -- Penicillin -- Antimicrobial Therapy for Infections in Animals -- More Penicillin and the Role of Drugs in Combination -- EDITORIAL WORK -- CHANGE IN FOCUS: PUBLIC HEALTH -- WORK IN THE JOHNSON FOUNDATION -- PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES -- FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE -- CREATION OF THE INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE -- AWARDS -- ETHICS, THE MEDICAL PROFESSION, AND MODERN SCIENCE -- Selected Bibliography -- Theophilus Shickel Painter August 22, 1889-October 5, 1969 -- EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION.

CHROMOSOME CYTOLOGY AND SEX CHROMOSOMES -- DROSOPHILA CYTOGENETICS -- UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION -- RETURN TO SCIENCE -- Selected Bibliography -- George Polya December 13, 1887-September7, 1985 -- ORIGINS AND CAREER -- PROBABILITY -- COMPLEX ANALYSIS -- REAL ANALYSIS, APPROXIMATION THEORY, NUMERICAL ANALYSIS -- COMBINATORICS -- MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS -- TEACHING AND LEARNING MATHEMATICS -- Selected Bibliography -- Edward Lawrie Tatum December 14, 1909-November 7, 1975 -- EDUCATION AND EARLY LIFE -- THE STANFORD YEARS (1937-1945) -- Neurospora and the One Gene-One Enzyme Theory -- Anticipating the One Gene-One Enzyme Theory -- Tryptophane and E. coli K-12 -- Tatum and Lederberg-Genetic Recombination in Bacteria -- RETURN TO STANFORD (1948-1956) -- THE ROCKEFELLER INSTITUTE (1957-1975) -- THE NOBEL PRIZE (1958) -- IN CONCLUSION -- Selected Bibliography -- Cornelis Bernardus Van Niel November 4, 1897-March 10, 1985 -- EDUCATION AND EARLY LIFE -- DELFT: WORKING WITH KLUYVER -- PACIFIC GROVE: HOPKINS MARINE STATION -- PHOTOSYNTHESIS STUDIES -- METHANE PRODUCTION AND CARBON DIOXIDE UTILIZATION -- Bacterial Taxonomy -- DENITRIFICATION -- VAN NIEL THE GENERALIST -- TEACHER AND COLLEAGUE -- RETIREMENT -- HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS -- Degrees And Honorary Degrees -- Fellowships And Professional Appointments -- Awards And Honors -- Learned Societies -- Selected Bibliography -- Robert H. Whittaker December 27, 1920-October 20, 1980 -- EDUCATION AND EARLY LIFE -- SCIENTIFIC WORK -- The Continuum of Plant Species Distribution -- Plant and Insect Population Patterns, and Element Cycling -- Dimension Analysis and the Classification of the Kingdoms -- Desert and Forest: Structure and Function -- Species Diversity, Ordination Methods -- TEACHER, DIPLOMAT, HONORED RESEARCHER -- HEALTH PROBLEMS -- IN CONCLUSION -- Selected Bibliography.

Maxwell Myer Wintrobe October 27, 1901-December 9, 1986 -- EDUCATION AND EARLY LIFE -- THE TULANE YEARS (1927-1930): ''ANEMIA OF THE SOUTH," NORMAL BLOOD VALUES, THE WINTROBE HEMATOCRIT,... -- JOHNS HOPKINS (1930-1943) -- THE UTAH YEARS (1943-1986) -- The Utah Group and the Wintrobe Legacy -- Clinical Hematology -- Principles Of Internal Medicine -- Blood, Pure And Eloquent -- RETIREMENT FROM THE CHAIR OF MEDICINE -- Selected Bibliography -- Cumulative Index.