Download or read book Biographical Memoirs written by National Academy of Sciences and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-08-23 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographic Memoirs: Volume 72 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again.