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BL
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963146
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b717516
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| Title & Author
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Biographical memoirs.\ National Academy of Sciences, the National Academies.
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| Publication Statement
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Washington, D.C. :: National Academies Press,, 2005.
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1 online resource (vii, 400 pages) :: illustrations, portraits
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| ISBN
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0309545382
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: 9780309545389
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030909304X
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9780309093040
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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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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| 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."
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| Subject
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Science-- United States, Biography.
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Scientists-- United States, Biography.
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Science.
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SCIENCE-- General.
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Science.
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Scientists.
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United States.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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509.2 N277 2005 Vol. 86 [ONLINE]
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| LC Classification
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Q141.B56 vol. 86
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| Added Entry
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National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
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