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Biographical Memoirs.
Title:
Biographical Memoirs.
Author:
Staff, National Academy of Sciences.
ISBN:
9780309588577
Physical Description:
1 online resource (436 pages)
Contents:
Biographical Memoirs -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Kenneth Ewart Boulding -- NOTES -- Selected Bibliography -- Solomon J. Buchsbaum -- Selected Bibliography -- Albert Hewett Coons -- Selected Bibliography -- William Francis Giauque -- Selected Bibliography -- Susumu Hagiwara -- Selected Bibliography -- Bernhard Haurwitz -- EARLY YEARS -- PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA (1932-41) -- MIGRATION TO THE WEST -- Selected Bibliography -- Joseph Paxson Iddings -- EDUCATION -- CAREER COURSE DETERMINED -- "HIGHEST EXPECTATIONS" -- MAPPING YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK -- RELUCTANT TEACHER -- ROCK CLASSIFICATION -- PROGRAM FOR EXPERIMENTAL PETROLOGY -- TEXTBOOK PREPARATIONS -- THE SUDDEN COLLAPSE -- "FREE TO WANDER" -- SECOND CIRCLING OF THE GLOBE -- HONORS -- SCHOLAR AND GENTLEMAN -- NOTES -- Selected Bibliography -- Herman Moritz Kalckar -- Selected Bibliography -- Israel Michael Lerner -- Selected Bibliography -- Thomas Seward Lovering -- Selected Bibliography -- Nicholas Ulrich Mayall -- LIFE HISTORY -- EDUCATION -- LICK OBSERVATORY -- WORLD WAR II -- THE 120-INCH TELESCOPE -- POSTWAR LICK RESEARCH -- KITT PEAK NATIONAL OBSERVATORY -- NOTE -- Selected Bibliography -- Edwin Mattison McMillan -- THE EARLY PREWAR PERIOD -- STUDIES ON TRANSURANIC ELEMENTS -- MILITARY WORK DURING WORLD WAR II -- ACCELERATOR PHYSICS -- LABORATORY DIRECTOR -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Selected Bibliography -- Hermann Rahn -- CONTRIBUTIONS TO REPRODUCTIVE PHYSIOLOGY OF SNAKES AND BIRDS, 1937-43 -- PULMONARY MECHANICS AND BLOOD-GAS EXCHANGE -- YEARS WITH WALLACE FENN, 1941-56 -- BLOOD-GAS EXCHANGE AT HIGH AND LOW PRESSURES -- PHYSIOLOGY OF DIVING IN THE AMA (DIVING WOMEN) OF KOREA AND JAPAN, 1956-68 -- GAS EXCHANGE IN AVIAN EGGS AND ITS ROLE IN EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT, 1968-90 -- SERVICE TO SCIENCE: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL.

TEACHER, SCHOLAR, AND GENTLEMAN -- NOTES -- SELECTED AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS -- Selected Bibliography -- Tracy Morton Sonneborn -- PERSONAL HISTORY -- PROFESSIONAL HISTORY -- Stenostomum -- Colpidium -- The Life Cycle Of Paramecium -- Mating-Type Inheritance -- Killers -- Serotypes -- Plasmagenese -- The Cortex -- Senescence And The Life Cycle -- The Species Problem -- Genes -- Trichocysts -- CONCLUSION -- Selected Bibliography -- Alexander Spoehr -- Selected Bibliography -- Eliot Stellar -- Selected Bibliography -- Julian Haynes Steward -- NOTES -- FURTHER READINGS -- Selected Bibliography -- Harald Ulrik Sverdrup -- NOTES -- Selected Bibliography -- Champ B. Tanner -- THE FORMATIVE YEARS -- THE SOIL PHYSICS YEARS -- THE MICROMETEOROLOGY PHASE -- THE PLANT PHYSIOLOGY PHASE -- THE FINAL YEARS -- Selected Bibliography -- Harland Goff Wood -- Selected Bibliography.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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