Biographical Memoirs -- Copyright -- Contents -- PREFACE -- GEORGE FREDERIC BARKER -- WILLIAM BLOOM -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- JOHN NATHANIEL COUCH -- THE EARLY YEARS: FAMILY AND EDUCATION -- THE INTERMEDIATE YEARS: GRADUATE TRAINING -- Battlefield, Laboratory, Classroom -- THE PROFESSIONAL YEARS: GENTLEMAN AND SCHOLAR -- THE LATER YEARS: RETIREMENT -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- MAX LUDWIG HENNING DELBRUCK -- FAMILY BACKGROUND -- EARLY INTEREST IN SCIENCE -- EARLY CAREER IN PHYSICS (1929-32) -- Bristol -- Copenhagen and Zürich -- THE BERLIN YEARS (1932-37) -- THE BACTERIOPHAGE EPOCH (1937-53) -- Early Days at Caltech -- Vanderbilt University and the Phage Group -- Cold Spring Harbor and the Phage and Phycomyces Courses -- Return to Caltech -- DNA as Genetic Material -- THE PHYCOMYCES PERIOD (1953-81) -- The Cologne Interlude (1961-63) -- PERSONALITY -- Sense of Humour -- The Intellectual Man -- LAST DAYS -- FAMILY -- HONORS -- REFERENCES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- MICHAEL DOUDOROFF -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- HERBERT FRIEDMANN -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- JACOB FURTH -- EARLY YEARS IN RESEARCH, 1918-32 -- CORNELL, 1932-47 -- A SHORT STAY IN DALLAS, 1947-49 -- RADIATION BIOLOGY AT OAK RIDGE, 1950-54 -- HARVARD AND THE CHILIDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION, 1954-59 -- TWO YEARS IN BUFFALO -- THE FINAL YEARS, COLUMBIA, 1961-79 -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- JOY PAUL GUILFORD -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- JOEL HENRY HILDEBRAND -- CHRONOLOGY OF MAJOR ACTIVITIES AND HONORS -- PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES -- NATIONAL AND OTHER SERVICE -- AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY AWARDS -- OTHER AWARDS AND LECTURESHIPS -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- GERARD PETER KUIPER -- SOURCES -- NOTE -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- BIDELMAN'S PAPERS -- Leonard Amby Maynard -- EARLY LIFE AND FORMATIVE YEARS -- FIRST CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE NUTRITION PROGRAM AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY.

LEADERSHIP IN ESTABLISHING CORNELL AS A CENTER FOR HUMAN NUTRITION RESEARCH AND TEACHING -- RESEARCH ACCOMPLISHMENTS -- PUBLIC SERVICE DURING WORLD WAR II AND IN THE POSTWAR YEARS -- INTERPRETATION OF IMPORTANT ADVANCES AND RELEVANT ISSUES IN NUTRITION FOR POLICY MAKERS -- ENCOURAGEMENT OF FACULTY COLLEAGUES -- HONORS -- THE HOME AS AN ENVIRONMENT FOR DISCUSSION OF NUTRITION-RELATED INITIATIVES -- MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS IN CHANGING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF NUTRITIONAL ISSUES AND IN PROMOTING THE TEACHING OF NUTRITION -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- I. I. RABI -- THE EARLY YEARS -- RESEARCH AND TEACHING AT COLUMBIA -- WORLD WAR II -- RETURN TO COLUMBIA -- SCIENTIST STATESMAN -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- RICHARD BROOKE ROBERTS -- FAMILY -- CHILDHOOD AND EDUCATION -- PREWAR YEARS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM OF THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON -- WARTIME -- PEACE, ARMS CONTROL, AND SOME POLITICS -- THE BIOPHYSICS GROUP AT THE DEPARTMENT OF TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM -- STUDIES OF BIOSYNTHESIS IN E. COLI -- MACROMOLECULAR BIOSYNTHESIS -- THE BRAIN -- NOTE -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- KENNETH DAVID ROEDER -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- FRANZ SCHRADER -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- WILLIAM SMITH TILLETT -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- MAURICE BOLKS VISSCHER -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ROBERT WILLIAMS WOOD -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- DON MERLIN LEE YOST -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- BOOK REVIEWS -- Cumulative Index.