Biographical Memoirs: -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Albert Francis Birch -- LIFE IN WASHINGTON D.C. AND AS A HARVARD UNDERGRADUATE -- FRANCIS BIRCH AND PERCY BRIDGMAN -- GEOPHYSICS AT HARVARD -- WORLD WAR II AND LITTLE BOY -- HEAT FLOW AND RADIOACTIVITY OF THE EARTH -- ELASTICITY AND CONSTITUTION OF THE EARTH'S INTERIOR -- PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND RECOGNITION -- NOTES -- Selected Bibliography -- Gregory Breit -- PERSONAL HISTORY -- PROFESSIONAL HISTORY -- Selected Bibliography -- Warren Lee Butler -- CHRONOLOGY -- AWARDS AND HONORS -- Selected Bibliography -- George Brownlee Craig, Jr. -- Selected Bibliography -- Scott Ellsworth Forbush -- EARLY YEARS -- 1926-32 -- 1932-40 -- 1940-45 -- 1945-57 -- 1957-58 -- 1958-84 -- GENERAL COMMENTS -- Selected Bibliography -- Ross Gunn -- Selected Bibliography -- David Harker -- PERSONAL HISTORY -- PROFESSIONAL HISTORY -- Atmospheric Nitrogen Corp. (1930-33) -- Caltech: The Harker Section (1933-36) -- Johns Hopkins Years: The Donnay-Harker Law (1936-41) -- General Electric: The Harker-Kasper Inequalities (1941-50) -- Brooklyn Poly Years: The Harker Construction and Ribonuclease (1950-59) -- Roswell Park Cancer Institute: The Structure of Ribonuclease (1959-76) -- The Final Years: Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute (1977-91) -- Selected Bibliography -- Yandell Henderson -- EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION -- PHYSIOLOGICAL LABORATORY, YALE MEDICAL SCHOOL -- PROFESSOR OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY, YALE UNIVERSITY -- Selected Bibliography -- James Lynn Hoard -- Selected Bibliography -- Joseph Kaplan -- EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION -- LABORATORY STUDIES -- SERVICE TO GEOPHYSICS -- Selected Bibliography -- Stephen W. Kuffler -- EDUCATION AND EARLY LIFE -- PROFESSIONAL CAREER -- MAJOR RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS -- Synaptic Transmission-First Studies -- Slow Muscle Fibers and Muscle Spindles -- Retinal Ganglion Cells.

Excitation and Inhibition of Crustacean Stretch Receptor -- Demonstration of Gaba as an Inhibitory Transmitter -- Presynaptic Inhibition -- Physiology of Glial Cells -- Synaptic Transmission -- STEVE IN THE LABORATORY -- HONORS AND AWARDS -- FAMILY -- CONCLUSION -- Selected Bibliography -- Anton Lang -- Selected Bibliography -- Samuel Colville Lind -- EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION -- THE LEIPZIG LABORATORY (1904-1905) -- UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (1905-13) -- U.S. BUREAU OF MINES (1913-25) -- FIXED NITROGEN RESEARCH LABORATORY (1925-26) -- UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (1926-47) -- LATER YEARS -- Selected Bibliography -- Alfred Otto Carl Nier -- EARLY YEARS (1911-36) -- AT HARVARD (1936-38) -- PRE-WAR YEARS AT MINNESOTA (1938-40) -- THE WAR YEARS (1942-45) -- RETURN TO MINNESOTA (1945-94) -- GEOCHRONOLOGY AND ISOTOPIC GEOCHEMISTRY (1946-62) -- MASS MEASUREMENTS OF NUCLIDES (1951-63) -- UPPER ATMOSPHERIC AND SPACE PHYSICS (1964-85) -- NOBLE GAS MICROANALYSIS (1983-94) -- NIER AS A PERSON -- REFERENCES -- Selected Bibliography -- Clair Cameron Patterson -- NOTES -- Selected Bibliography -- Berta V. Scharrer -- EARLY LIFE -- BIRTH OF THE NEUROSECRETION HYPOTHESIS -- STARTING OVER -- PHYSIOLOGICAL RELEVANCE OF NEUROSECRETION -- ON TO EINSTEIN -- LATER CAREER -- NOTE -- Selected Bibliography -- Frederick Emmons Terman -- Selected Bibliography -- Victor Chandler Twitty -- Selected Bibliography -- Frits Warmolt Went -- Selected Bibliography -- Eugene Paul Wigner -- EARLY HISTORY -- TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE, BERLIN -- RETURN TO BUDAPEST -- RETURN TO BERLIN -- SHIFT TO GÖTTINGEN -- WIGNER'S SOLILOQUY -- RETURN TO BERLIN -- PRINCETON BECKONS -- PREWAR YEARS OF RESEARCH -- UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, 1936-38 -- NUCLEAR FISSION -- UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO -- DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH, CLINTON LABORATORIES, OAK RIDGE -- REMAINING ACADEMIC YEARS -- RETIREMENT -- NOTES.