Biographical memoirs . Volume 69 / / National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1996
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (436 p.)
• Disciplina: 509.22
• Soggetto topico: Scientists - United States; Science - United States
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Biographical memoirs
• ISBN: 1-280-19286-0; 9786610192861; 0-309-58857-X; 0-585-03769-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812203903321
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