National Academy of Sciences, the National Academies.
Volume Designation
Volume 86 /
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Washington, D.C. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
National Academies Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2005.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (vii, 400 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations, portraits
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Lawrence Hugh Aller / Manuel Peimbert -- Harry Beevers / Maarten J. Chrispeels -- Frank Alden Bovey / Frederic C. Schilling and Alan E. Tonelli -- Norman Davidson / Henry A. Lester and Ahmed Zewail -- Harry George Drickamer / Jiri Jonas -- Harold Eugene Edgerton / J. Kim Vandiver and Pagan Kennedy -- Howard E. Evans / Mary Jane West-Eberhard -- Willis H. Flygare / David Chandler -- Jesse Leonard Greenstein / Robert P. Kraft -- Donald R. Griffin / Charles G. Gross -- Wassily Hoeffding / Nicholas I. Fisher and Willem Van Zwet -- D. Gale Johnson / Vernon W. Ruttan, James J. Heckman, and G. Edward Schuh -- Robert Thomas Jones / Walter G. Vincenti -- Norman Carl Rasmussen / Kent F. Hansen -- Glenn Wade Salisbury / Robert H. Foote -- William Rees Seears / Nicholas Rott -- Folke Karl Skoog / Donald J. Armstrong and Eldon H. Newcomb -- Hiroshi Tamiya / Andrew A. Benson -- Evon Zartman Vogt, Jr. / Joyce Marcus -- Robert M. Walker / P. Buford Price and Ernst Zinner.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Published since 1877, Biographical Memoirs are brief biographies of deceased National Academy of Sciences members, written by those who knew them or their work. These biographies provide a personal and scholarly view of the lives and work of America's most distinguished scientists and a biographical history of science in the United States."