Biographical Memoirs -- Contents -- Preface -- Detlev Wulf Bronk -- MOTIVATIONS, OPPORTUNITIES, AND DECISIONS -- RESEARCH, BIOPHYSICS, AND THE UNITY OF SCIENCE -- A REVERSIBLE TRANSITION, THEN PHYSIOLOGISTS IN WAR -- PRIORITY: PERSONAL RESEARCH OR SCIENCE FOR HUMAN WELFARE -- IN SUPPORT OF RESEARCH AND THE SCHOLARLY LIFE -- IN SERVICE TO SCIENCE AND THE NATION -- FREEDOM FOR INQUIRY -- A COMMUNITY OF SCHOLARS WHO ARE SCIENTISTS -- MONUMENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Bibliography -- Vannevar Bush -- HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS -- PROFESSIONAL AND HONORARY SOCIETIES -- SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS -- AWARDS -- BOARDS -- Bibliography -- Rufus Cole -- HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS -- Degrees -- Student Honor Societies -- Professional Appointments -- Awards -- Memberships -- Bibliography -- Wallace Osgood Fenn -- THE SCIENTIST -- CONTRIBUTIONS TO MUSCLE AND ELECTROLYTE PHYSIOLOGY -- CONTRIBUTIONS TO RESPIRATION PHYSIOLOGY -- CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PHYSIOLOGY OF SPACE AND OCEANS -- SERVICE TO SOCIETIES -- THE MAN AND TEACHER -- AWARDS, HONORS, AND DISTINCTIONS -- Chronology -- Memberships (Selected) -- Honorary Memberships -- Awards -- Honorary Degrees -- Bibliography -- Paul Darwin Foote -- Bibliography -- William Zev Hassid -- Bibliography -- Frank Lappin Horsfall, Jr. -- Bibliography -- Otto Laporte -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHRONOLOGY -- Bibliography -- Philip Duryee McMaster -- Bibliography -- Maria Goeppert Mayer -- Bibliography -- Arnold Rice Rich -- Bibliography -- Richard Edwin Shope -- Bibliography -- William Hammond Wright -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments for the Photographs.