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LARS VLERIAN AHLORS   by Frederick Gehring Volume 87 © 2005   PDF
GABRIEL A. ALMOND   by Sidney Verba Volume 87 © 2005   PDF
HERMAN SAMUEL BLOCH   by James P. Shoffner Volume 87 © 2005   PDF
JOSEPH W. CHAMBERLAIN   by Donald M. Hunten Volume 87 © 2005   PDF
DONALD SHARP FREDRICKSON   by James B. Wyngaarden Volume 87 © 2005   PDF
MELVIN LAX   by Joseph L. Birman Volume 87 © 2005   PDF
HANS E. SUESS   by Heinrich Waenke Volume 87 © 2005   PDF
THOMAS FOXEN ANDERSON   by Robert P. Perry Volume 87 © 2005   PDF
JULIUS AXELROD   by Solomon H. Snyder Volume 87 © 2005   PDF
ELSO STERRENBERG BARGHOORN JR.   by Lynn Margulis Volume 87 © 2005   PDF
ANSLEY J. COALE   by Thomas J. Espenshade Volume 87 © 2005   PDF
JAMES HALL JR.   by Robert H. Dott Jr. Volume 87 © 2005   PDF
ZELLIG SABBATAI HARRIS   by W. C. Watt Volume 87 © 2005   PDF
HAROLD HOTELLING   by K. J. Arrow Volume 87 © 2005   PDF
MARTIN GLOVER LARRABEE   by David R. Burt Volume 87 © 2005   PDF
LEONARD MANDEL   by Robert J. Scully Volume 87 © 2005   PDF
RICHARD DRUMMOND MCKELVEY   by Thomas R. Palfrey Volume 87 © 2005   PDF
EUGENE PLEASANTS ODUM   by Gary W. Barrett Volume 87 © 2005   PDF
HARRISON SHULL   by Donald S. McClure Volume 87 © 2005   PDF
RAYMOND ELLIOT ZIRKLE   by Robert P. Perry Volume 87 © 2005   PDF
Charles Greeley Abbot May 31, 1872 — December 17, 1973 by David H. Devorkin Volume 73 © 1998 HTML PDF
Lawrence Hugh Aller September 24, 1913–March 16, 2003 by Manuel Peimbert Volume 86 © 2005 HTML PDF
Samuel King Allison November 13, 1900 — September 15, 1965 by Roger H. Hildebrand Volume 76 © 1998 HTML PDF
D. Bernard Amos April 16, 1923–May 15, 2003 by Edmond J. Yunis Volume 85 © 2004 HTML PDF
Carl David Anderson September 3, 1905 — January 11, 1991 by William H. Pickering Volume 73 © 1998 HTML PDF
Herbert L. Anderson May 24, 1914 — July 16, 1988 by Harold M. Agnew Volume 72 © 1997 HTML PDF
Daniel I. Arnon November 14, 1910 — December 20, 1994 by Bob B. Buchanan Volume 80 © 2001 HTML PDF
John David Axtell February 5, 1934–December 2, 2000 by Arnel R. Hallauer Volume 82 © 2002 HTML PDF
William Osgood Aydelotte September 1, 1910 — January 17, 1996 by Allan G. Bogue and Gilbert White Volume 73 © 1998 HTML PDF
Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge July 27, 1904 — July 14, 1996 by Robert V. Pound and Norman F. Ramsey Volume 76 © 1998 HTML PDF
Archibald Philip Bard October 25, 1898 — April 5, 1977 by Timothy S. Harrison Volume 72 © 1997 HTML PDF
Valentine Bargmann April 6, 1908 — July 20, 1989 by John R. Klauder Volume 76 © 1998 HTML PDF
H. A. Barker November 29, 1907–December 24, 2000 by Robert L. Switzer, Earl R. Stadtman, and Thressa C. Stadtman Volume 84 © 2003 HTML PDF
Henry Herman Barschall April 29, 1915 — February 4, 1997 by Robert Adair and Willy Haeberli Volume 75 © 1998 HTML PDF
Paul Doughty Bartlett August 14, 1907 — October 11, 1997 by F. H. Westheimer Volume 75 © 1998 HTML PDF
Frank Ambrose Beach April 13, 1911 — June 15, 1988 by Donald A. Dewsbury Volume 73 © 1998 HTML PDF
Stanley D. Beck October 17, 1919–July 8, 1997 by John L. Wedberg, G. Michael Chippendale, and John C. Reese Volume 81 © 2001 HTML PDF
Harry Beevers January 10, 1924–April 14, 2004 by Maarten J. Chrispeels Volume 86 © 2005 HTML PDF
Myron Lee Bender May 20, 1924 — July 29, 1988 by Frank H. Westheimer Volume 66 © 1995 HTML PDF
Earl Philip Benditt April 15, 1916–May 27, 1996 by David Lagunoff and George M. Martin Volume 81 © 2001 HTML PDF
Abram Bergson April 21, 1914
April 23, 2003
by Paul A. Samuelson Volume 84 © 2004 HTML PDF
Robert M. Berne April 22, 1918
October 4, 2001
by Matthew N. Levy Volume 84 © 2004 HTML PDF
Richard Barry Bernstein October 31, 1923 — July 8, 1990 by James L. Kinsey and Raphael D. Levine Volume 75 © 1998 HTML PDF
Lipman Bers May 22, 1914 — October 29, 1993 by Irwin Kra and Hyman Bass Volume 80 © 2001 HTML PDF
R. H. Bing October 20, 1914–April 28, 1986 by Michael Starbird Volume 81 © 2001 HTML PDF
Albert Francis Birch August 22, 1903 — January 30, 1992 by Thomas J. Ahrens Volume 74 © 1998 HTML PDF
George David Birkhoff March 21, 1884 — November 12, 1944 by Oswald Veblen Volume 80 © 2001 HTML PDF
Jacob Aall Bonnevie Bjerknes November 2, 1897—July 7, 1975 by Arnt Eliassen Volume 68 © 1996 HTML PDF
Hubert Morse Blalock, Jr. August 23, 1926 — February 8, 1991 by Herbert L. Costner Volume 68 © 1996 HTML PDF
Peter Michael Blau February 7, 1918–March 12, 2002 by W. Richard Scott and Craig Calhoun Volume 85 © 2004 HTML PDF
Walker Bleakney February 8, 1901 — January 15, 1992 by George T. Reynolds Volume 73 © 1998 HTML PDF
Maxime Bôcher August 28, 1867–September 12, 1918 by William F. Osgood Volume 82 © 2002 HTML PDF
Salomon Bochner August 20, 1899–May 2, 1982 by Anthony W. Knapp Volume 85 © 2004 HTML PDF
James Frederick Bonner September 1, 1910 — September 13, 1996 by Frank B. Salisbury Volume 73 © 1998 HTML PDF
Henry G. Booker December 14, 1910 — November 1, 1988 by William E. Gordon Volume 79 © 2001 HTML PDF
John Robert Borchert October 24, 1918–March 30, 2001 by John S. Adams and Vernon W. Ruttan Volume 82 © 2003 HTML PDF
Kenneth Ewart Boulding January 18, 1910 — March 18, 1993 by Nathan Keyfitz Volume 69 © 1996 HTML PDF
Frank Alden Bovey June 4, 1918–January 19, 2003 by Frederic C. Schilling and Alan E. Tonelli Volume 86 © 2005 HTML PDF
Norris E. Bradbury May 30, 1909 — August 20, 1997 by Harold M. Agnew and Raemer E. Schreiber Volume 75 © 1998 HTML PDF
Richard Dagobert Brauer February 10, 1901 — April 17, 1977 by J. A. Green Volume 75 © 1998 HTML PDF
Gregory Breit July 14, 1899 — September 11, 1981 by McAllister Hull Volume 74 © 1998 HTML PDF
Lyman James Briggs May 7, 1874 — March 25, 1963 by Peter Briggs Myers and Johanna M. H. Levelt Sengers Volume 77 © 1999 HTML PDF
Robert W. Briggs December 10, 1911 — March 4, 1983 by Marie A. Di Berardino Volume 76 © 1998 HTML PDF
Royal Alexander Brink September 16, 1897 — October 2, 1984 by Oliver E. Nelson, Jr., and Ray D. Owen Volume 66 © 1995 HTML PDF
Wallace Reed Brode June 12, 1900–August 10, 1974 by Donald S. McClure Volume 82 © 2002 HTML PDF
Roger William Brown April 14, 1925 — December 11, 1997 by Jerome Kagan Volume 77 © 1999 HTML PDF
William L. Brown July 16, 1913 — March 8, 1991 by Donald N. Duvick Volume 70 © 1996 HTML PDF
Marvin P. Bryant July 4, 1925–October 16, 2000 by Arnold L. Demain and Ralph F. Wolfe Volume 81 © 2002 HTML PDF
George Hermann Büchi August 1, 1921 — August 28, 1998 by Glenn A. Berchtold and Louise H. Foley Volume 79 © 2000 HTML PDF
Solomon J. Buchsbaum December 4, 1924 — March 8, 1993 by Kenneth G. McKay Volume 69 © 1996 HTML PDF
Robert Kyle Burns July 26, 1896 — June 26, 1982 by James Murray Volume 67 © 1995 HTML PDF
Warren Lee Butler January 28, 1925 — June 21, 1984 by Andrew A. Benson Volume 74 © 1998 HTML PDF
Horace Robert Byers March 12, 1906 — May 22, 1998 by Roscoe R. Braham, Jr., and Thomas F. Malone Volume 79 © 2001 HTML PDF
Theodore L. Cairns July 20, 1914 — September 26, 1994 by Blaine C. McKusick Volume 76 © 1998 HTML PDF
Melvin Calvin April 8, 1911 — January 8, 1997 by Glenn T. Seaborg and Andrew A. Benson Volume 75 © 1998 HTML PDF
William B. Castle October 21, 1897 — August 9, 1990 by James H. Jandl Volume 67 © 1995 HTML PDF
Bruce Chalmers October 15, 1907 — May 25, 1990 by David Turnbull Volume 76 © 1998 HTML PDF
Seth Carlo Chandler, Jr. September 16, 1846 — December 31, 1913 by W. E. Carter and M. S. Carter Volume 66 © 1995 HTML PDF
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar October 13, 1910 — August 21, 1995 by Eugene N. Parker Volume 72 © 1997 HTML PDF
Min Chueh Chang October 10, 1908 — June 5, 1991 by Roy O. Greep Volume 68 © 1996 HTML PDF
Jule Gregory Charney January 1, 1917 — June 16, 1981 by Norman A. Phillips Volume 66 © 1995 HTML PDF
J. Desmond Clark April 10, 1916–February 14, 2002 by Fred Wendorf Volume 83 © 2003 HTML PDF
Gerald Maurice Clemence August 16, 1908 — November 22, 1974 by Raynor L. Duncombe Volume 79 © 2001 HTML PDF
Gerhard Ludwig Closs May 1, 1928–May 24, 1992 by Heinz D. Roth Volume 84 © 2003 HTML PDF
Preston Cloud September 26, 1912 — January 16, 1991 by John C. Crowell Volume 67 © 1995 HTML PDF
Philip Pacy Cohen September 28, 1908 — October 25, 1993 by Robert H. Burris Volume 77 © 1999 HTML PDF
Kenneth Stewart Cole July 10, 1900 — April 18, 1984 by Sir Andrew Huxley Volume 70 © 1996 HTML PDF
Julius H. Comroe, Jr. March 13, 1911 — July 31, 1984 by Seymour S. Kety and Robert E. Forster Volume 79 © 2001 HTML PDF
Jerome W. Conn September 24, 1907 — June 11, 1981 by William H. Daughaday Volume 71 © 1997 HTML PDF
Rodney Lee Cool March 8, 1920 — April 16, 1988 by Robert K. Adair Volume 73 © 1998 HTML PDF
Albert Hewett Coons June 28, 1912 — September 30, 1978 by Hugh O. McDevitt Volume 69 © 1996 HTML PDF
Robert Brainard Corey August 19, 1897 — April 23, 1971 by Richard E. Marsh Volume 72 © 1997 HTML PDF
George Constantin Cotzias June 16, 1918 — June 13, 1977 by Vincent P. Dole Volume 68 © 1996 HTML PDF
Richard Courant January 8, 1888–January 27, 1972 by Peter D. Lax Volume 82 © 2003 HTML PDF
André Frédéric Cournand September 24, 1895 — February 19, 1988 by Ewald R. Weibel Volume 67 © 1995 HTML PDF
Allan V. Cox December 17, 1926 — January 27, 1987 by Konrad B. Krauskopf Volume 71 © 1997 HTML PDF
George Brownlee Craig, Jr. July 8, 1930 — December 21, 1995 by Eddie W. Cupp Volume 74 © 1998 HTML PDF
C. Chapin Cutler December 16, 1914–December 1, 2002 by Ping King Tien Volume 85 © 2004 HTML PDF
Joseph Michael Daly April 9, 1922 — August 18, 1993 by Myron K. Brakke Volume 71 © 1997 HTML PDF
Sidney Darlington July 13, 1906
October 31, 1997
by Irwin W. Sandberg and Ernest S. Kuh Volume 84 © 2004 HTML PDF
Norman Davidson April 5, 1916–February 14, 2002 by Henry A. Lester and Ahmed Zewail Volume 86 © 2005 HTML PDF
Bernard David Davis January 7, 1916 — January 14, 1994 by Werner K. Maas Volume 77 © 1999 HTML PDF
Hallowell Davis August 31, 1896 — August 22, 1992 by Robert Galambos Volume 75 © 1998 HTML PDF
Edward Smith Deevey, Jr. December 3, 1914 — November 29, 1988 by W. T. Edmondson Volume 71 © 1997 HTML PDF
Jacob Pieter Den Hartog July 23, 1901 — March 17, 1989 by Stephen H. Crandall Volume 67 © 1995 HTML PDF
Rafael Lorente De No April 8, 1902 — April 2, 1990 by Thomas A. Woolsey Volume 79 © 2000 HTML PDF
Karl Wolfgang Deutsch July 21, 1912 — November 1, 1992 by Richard L. Merritt, Bruce M. Russett, and Robert A. Dahl Volume 80 © 2001 HTML PDF
Michael J. S. Dewar September 24, 1918 — October 10, 1997 by Josef Michl and Marye Anne Fox Volume 77 © 1999 HTML PDF
Robert Henry Dicke May 6, 1916 — March 4, 1997 by W. Happer, P. J. E. Peebles, and D. T. Wilkinson Volume 77 © 1999 HTML PDF
Albert Dorfman July 6, 1916 — July 27, 1982 by Nancy B. Schwartz and Lennart Rodén Volume 72 © 1997 HTML PDF
Harry George Drickamer November 19, 1918–May 6, 2002 by Jiri Jonas Volume 86 © 2005 HTML PDF
Lee Alvin Dubridge September 21, 1901 — January 23, 1994 by Jesse L. Greenstein Volume 72 © 1997 HTML PDF
Harold Eugene Edgerton April 6, 1903–January 4, 1990 by J. Kim Vandiver and Pagan Kennedy Volume 86 © 2005 HTML PDF
Frederick Russell Eggan September 12, 1906 — May 7, 1991 by Evon Z. Vogt, Jr. Volume 68 © 1996 HTML PDF
Samuel Eilenberg September 30, 1913 — January 30, 1998 by Hyman Bass, Henri Cartan, Peter Freyd, Alex Heller, and Saunders Mac Lane Volume 79 © 2000 HTML PDF
Robert Cooley Elderfield May 30, 1904 — December 10, 1979 by Nelson J. Leonard Volume 78 © 2000 HTML PDF
Gertrude B. Elion January 23, 1918 — February 21, 1999 by Mary Ellen Avery Volume 78 © 2000 HTML PDF
Walter M. Elsasser March 20, 1904 — October 14, 1991 by Harry Rubin Volume 68 © 1996 HTML PDF
Paul Hugh Emmett September 22, 1900 — April 22, 1985 by Walter S. Koski Volume 67 © 1995 HTML PDF
Katherine Esau April 3, 1898 — June 4, 1997 by Ray F. Evert Volume 76 © 1998 HTML PDF
Howard E. Evans February 23, 1919–July 18, 2002 by Mary Jane West-Eberhard Volume 86 © 2005 HTML PDF
Edward Vaughan Evarts March 28, 1926 — July 2, 1985 by William Thomas Thach, Jr. Volume 78 © 2000 HTML PDF
Henry Eyring February 20, 1901 — December 26, 1981 by Walter Kauzmann Volume 70 © 1996 HTML PDF
Leopoldo Máximo Falicov June 24, 1933–January 24, 1995 by Manuel Cardona, Marvin L. Cohen, and Steven G. Louie Volume 83 © 2003 HTML PDF
Eugene Feenberg October 6, 1906 — November 7, 1977 by George Pake Volume 66 © 1995 HTML PDF
Bernard N. Fields March 24, 1938 — January 31, 1995 by Sondra Schlesinger Volume 71 © 1997 HTML PDF
Maxwell Finland March 15, 1902 — October 25, 1987 by Frederick C. Robbins Volume 76 © 1998 HTML PDF
Louis Barkhouse Flexner January 7, 1902 — March 29, 1996 by James M. Sprague Volume 73 © 1998 HTML PDF
Paul John Flory June 19, 1910–September 8, 1985 by William S. Johnson,1 Walter H. Stockmayer, and Henry Taube Volume 82 © 2002 HTML PDF
Willis H. Flygare July 24, 1936–May 18, 1981 by David Chandler Volume 86 © 2005 HTML PDF
Jordi Folch-Pi March 25, 1911 — October 3, 1979 by Marjorie B. Lees and Alfred Pope Volume 79 © 2001 HTML PDF
Karl August Folkers September 1, 1906–December 9, 1997 by William Shive Volume 81 © 2002 HTML PDF
Scott Ellsworth Forbush April 10, 1904 — April 4, 1984 by James A. Van Allen Volume 74 © 1998 HTML PDF
Edward C. Franklin April 14, 1928 — February 20, 1982 by Henry Metzger Volume 78 © 2000 HTML PDF
Josef Fried July 21, 1914–August 17, 2001 by Nelson J. Leonard and Elkan Blout Volume 82 © 2002 HTML PDF
Kurt Otto Friedrichs September 28, 1901 — January 1, 1983 by Cathleen Synge Morawetz Volume 67 © 1995 HTML PDF
Charlotte Friend March 11, 1921 — January 13, 1987 by Leila Diamond Volume 63 © 1994 HTML PDF
Raymond Matthew Fuoss September 28, 1905 — December 1, 1987 by Michael A. Coplan Volume 71 © 1997 HTML PDF
Harold P. Furth January 13, 1930–February 21, 2002 by T. Kenneth Fowler Volume 83 © 2003 HTML PDF
Reynold Clayton Fuson June 1, 1895 — August 4, 1979 by Peter Beak, David Y. Curtin, and David A. Lightner Volume 73 © 1998 HTML PDF
Herbert Spencer Gasser July 5, 1888 — May 11, 1963 by Merrill W. Chase and Carlton C. Hunt Volume 67 © 1995 HTML PDF
William Francis Giauque May 12, 1895 — March 28, 1982 by Kenneth S. Pitzer and David A. Shirley Volume 69 © 1996 HTML PDF
Alfred Gilman February 5, 1908 — January 13, 1984 by Murdoch Ritchie Volume 70 © 1996 HTML PDF
Henry Gilman May 19, 1893 — November 7,1986 by C. Eaborn Volume 70 © 1996 HTML PDF
Robert R. Gilruth October 18, 1913–August 17, 2000 by Christopher C. Kraft, Jr. Volume 84 © 2003 HTML PDF
David Rockwell Goddard January 3, 1908 — July 9, 1985 by Ralph O. Erickson Volume 67 © 1995 HTML PDF
Walther Frederick Goebel December 24, 1899 — November 1, 1993 by Maclyn McCarty Volume 77 © 1999 HTML PDF
Leo Goldberg January 26, 1913 — November 1, 1987 by Lawrence H. Aller Volume 72 © 1997 HTML PDF
Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber July 14, 1911 — February 2, 1998 by Peter D. Bond and Ernest Henley Volume 77 © 1999 HTML PDF
Carl W. Gottschalk April 28, 1922 — October 15, 1997 by Maurice B. Burg Volume 77 © 1999 HTML PDF
David Ezra Green August 5, 1910–July 8, 1983 by Helmut Beinert, Paul K Stumpf, and Salih J. Wakil Volume 84 © 2003 HTML PDF
Jesse Leonard Greenstein October 15, 1909–October 21, 2002 by Robert P. Kraft Volume 86 © 2005 HTML PDF
Donald R. Griffin August 3, 1915–November 7, 2003 by Charles G. Gross Volume 86 © 2005 HTML PDF
Zvi Griliches September 12, 1930 — November 4, 1999 by Marc Nerlove Volume 80 © 2001 HTML PDF
Clifford Grobstein July 20, 1916 — September 6, 1998 by Norman K. Wessells Volume 78 © 2000 HTML PDF
Robert Edward Gross July 2, 1905 — October 11, 1988 by Francis D. Moore and Judah Folkman Volume 66 © 1995 HTML PDF
Harry Grundfest January 10, 1904 — October 10, 1983 by John P. Reuben Volume 66 © 1995 HTML PDF
Ernest Grunwald November 2,1923–March 28,2002 by Edward M. Arnett Volume 84 © 2003 HTML PDF
Ross Gunn May 12, 1897 — October 15, 1966 by Philip H. Abelson Volume 74 © 1998 HTML PDF
Beno Gutenberg June 4, 1889 — January 25, 1960 by Leon Knopoff Volume 76 © 1998 HTML PDF
Mary R. Haas January 12, 1910 — May 17, 1996 by Kenneth L. Pike Volume 76 © 1998 HTML PDF
Susumu Hagiwara November 6, 1922 — April 1, 1989 by Theodore H. Bullock and Alan D. Grinnell Volume 69 © 1996 HTML PDF
Homer Dupre Hagstrum March 11, 1915–September 7, 1994 by Philip W. Anderson and Theodore H. Geballe Volume 83 © 2003 HTML PDF
Louis Plack Hammett April 7, 1894 — February 9, 1987 by F. H. Westheimer Volume 72 © 1997 HTML PDF
Morris Howard Hansen December 15, 1910 — October 9, 1990 by Joseph Waksberg and Edwin D. Goldfield Volume 70 © 1996 HTML PDF
Robert Paul Hanson May 14, 1918 — July 27, 1987 by Thomas M. Yuill and B. C. Easterday Volume 70 © 1996 HTML PDF
David Harker October 19, 1906 — February 27, 1991 by Herbert A. Hauptman Volume 74 © 1998 HTML PDF
Jack Rodney Harlan June 7, 1917–August 26, 1998 by Theodore Hymowitz Volume 82 © 2003 HTML PDF
John C. Harsanyi May 29, 1920 — August 9, 2000 by Kenneth J. Arrow Volume 80 © 2001 HTML PDF
Arthur Davis Hasler January 5, 1908–March 23, 2001 by Gene E. Likens Volume 82 © 2002 HTML PDF
Bernhard Haurwitz August 14, 1905 — February 22, 1986 by Julius London Volume 69 © 1996 HTML PDF
Emil Walter Haury May 2, 1904 — December 5, 1992 by Raymond Harris Thompson, Caleb Vance Haynes, Jr., and James Jefferson Reid Volume 72 © 1997 HTML PDF
Charles Roy Hauser March 8, 1900 — January 6, 1970 by Charles K. Bradsher Volume 67 © 1995 HTML PDF
Michael Heidelberger April 29, 1888 — June 25, 1991 by Herman N. Eisen Volume 80 © 2001 HTML PDF
Robert Fleming Heizer July 13, 1915 — July 18, 1979 by Thomas R. Hester Volume 70 © 1996 HTML PDF
Charles Roy Henderson April 1, 1911 — March 14, 1989 by L. Dale Van Vleck Volume 73 © 1998 HTML PDF
Yandell Henderson April 23, 1873 — February 18, 1944 by John B. West Volume 74 © 1998 HTML PDF
Louis George Henyey February 3, 1910 — February 18, 1970 by Peter H. Bodenheimer Volume 66 © 1995 HTML PDF
George Henry Hepting September 1, 1907 — April 29, 1988 by Ellis B. Cowling, Arthur Kelman, and Harry R. Powers, Jr. Volume 76 © 1998 HTML PDF
Raymond George Herb January 22, 1908 — October 1, 1996 by Henry H. Barschall Volume 72 © 1997 HTML PDF
Alfred Day Hershey December 4, 1908 — May 22, 1997 by Franklin W. Stahl Volume 80 © 2001 HTML PDF
Karl Ferdinand Herzfeld February 24, 1892 — June 3, 1978 by Joseph F. Mulligan Volume 80 © 2001 HTML PDF
William Redington Hewlett May 20, 1913
January 12, 2001
by Robert J. Scully and Marlan O. Scully Volume 84 © 2004 HTML PDF
Joseph Oakland Hirschfelder May 27, 1911 — March 30, 1990 by R. Byron Bird, Charles F. Curtiss, and Phillip R. Certain Volume 66 © 1995 HTML PDF
James Gerald Hirsch October 31, 1922–May 25, 1987 by Carol L. Moberg and Ralph M. Steinman Volume 84 © 2003 HTML PDF
James Lynn Hoard December 28, 1905 — April 10, 1993 by Robert E. Hughes Volume 74 © 1998 HTML PDF
Wassily Hoeffding June 12, 1914–February 28, 1991 by Nicholas I. Fisher and Willem R. Van Zwet Volume 86 © 2005 HTML PDF
Klaus Hofmann February 21, 1911–December 25, 1995 by Frances M. Finn and Bert W. O'Malley Volume 81 © 2001 HTML PDF
Robert Hofstadter February 5, 1915 — November 17, 1990 by Jerome I. Friedman and William A. Little Volume 79 © 2001 HTML PDF
Johannes Holtfreter January 9, 1901 — November 13, 1992 by John Gerhart Volume 73 © 1998 HTML PDF
Earnest Albert Hooton November 20, 1887 — May 3, 1954 by Stanley M. Garn and Eugene Giles Volume 68 © 1996 HTML PDF
James Gordon Horsfall January 9, 1905 — March 22, 1995 by Paul E. Waggoner Volume 72 © 1997 HTML PDF
Carl Iver Hovland June 12, 1912 — April 16, 1961 by Roger N. Shepard Volume 73 © 1998 HTML PDF
Loo-keng Hua November 12, 1910–June 12, 1985 by Heini Halberstam Volume 81 © 2001 HTML PDF
Carl Barton Huffaker September 30, 1914 — October 10, 1995 by Leopoldo E. Caltagirone and Donald L. Dahlsten Volume 75 © 1998 HTML PDF
Vernon Willard Hughes May 28, 1921–March 25, 2003 by Robert K. Adair Volume 84 © 2003 HTML PDF
Frederick Seymour Hulse February 11, 1906 — May 16, 1990 by Eugene Giles Volume 70 © 1996 HTML PDF
Jerome Clarke Hunsaker August 26, 1886 — September 10, 1984 by Jack L. Kerrebrock Volume 78 © 2000 HTML PDF
Joseph Paxson Iddings January 21, 1857 — September 8, 1920 by H. S. Yoder, Jr. Volume 69 © 1996 HTML PDF
Leon Orris Jacobson December 16, 1911 — September 20, 1992 by Eugene Goldwasser Volume 70 © 1996 HTML PDF
Harold Lloyd James June 11, 1912–April 2, 2000 by Paul Barton Volume 81 © 2002 HTML PDF
Carson Dunning Jeffries March 22, 1922 — October 18, 1995 by Walter Knight, John Reynolds, Erwin Hahn, and Alan Portis Volume 73 © 1998 HTML PDF
Jesse D. Jennings July 7, 1909 — August 13, 1997 by C. Melvin Aikens Volume 77 © 1999 HTML PDF
Clarence Leonard (kelly) Johnson February 27, 1910 — December 21, 1990 by Ben R. Rich Volume 67 © 1995 HTML PDF
D. Gale Johnson July 10, 1916–April 13, 2003 by Vernon W. Ruttan, James J. Heckman, and G. Edward Schuh Volume 86 © 2005 HTML PDF
Harold Lester Johnson April 17, 1921 — April 2, 1980 by Gérard H. de Vaucouleurs Volume 67 © 1995 HTML PDF
John Raven Johnson August 9, 1900–May 25, 1983 by Charles F. Wilcox, Jerrold Meinwald, and Keith R. Johnson Volume 85 © 2004 HTML PDF
William Summer Johnson February 24, 1913 — August 19, 1995 by Gilbert Stork Volume 80 © 2001 HTML PDF
Mary Ellen Jones December 25, 1922 — August 23, 1996 by Thomas W. Traut Volume 79 © 2001 HTML PDF
Robert Thomas Jones May 28, 1910–August 11, 1999 by Walter G. Vincenti Volume 86 © 2005 HTML PDF
Percy Lavon Julian April 11, 1899 — April 19, 1975 by Bernhard Witkop Volume 52 © 1999 HTML PDF
Elvin A. Kabat September 1, 1914–June 16, 2000 by Rose G. Mage and Ten Feizi Volume 85 © 2004 HTML PDF
Emil Thomas Kaiser February 15, 1938 — July 18, 1988 by F. H. Westheimer Volume 72 © 1997 HTML PDF
Herman Moritz Kalckar March 26, 1908 — May 17, 1991 by Eugene P. Kennedy Volume 69 © 1996 HTML PDF
Joseph Kaplan September 8, 1902 — October 3, 1991 by William W. Kellogg and Charles A. Barth Volume 74 © 1998 HTML PDF
Frederick Kaufman September 13, 1919 — July 6, 1985 by Michael F. Golde Volume 66 © 1995 HTML PDF
Berwind Petersen Kaufmann April 23, 1897–September 12, 1975 by Edward B. Lewis Volume 85 © 2004 HTML PDF
William M. Kaula May 19, 1926 — April 1, 2000 by Donald L. Turcotte Volume 81 © 2002 HTML PDF
Edwin C. Kemble January 28, 1889 — March 12, 1984 by Alexi Assmus Volume 76 © 1998 HTML PDF
Donald William Kerst November 1, 1911 — August 19, 1993 by Andrew M. Sessler and Keith R. Symon Volume 72 © 1997 HTML PDF
Seymour S. Kety August 25, 1915–May 25, 2000 by Louis Sokoloff Volume 83 © 2003 HTML PDF
Frederick George Keyes June 24, 1885 — April 14, 1976 by John Ross Volume 73 © 1998 HTML PDF
Arthur S. King January 18, 1876 — April 17, 1957 by Robert B. King Volume 68 © 1996 HTML PDF
John Gamble Kirkwood May 30, 1907 — August 9, 1959 by Stuart A. Rice and Frank H. Stillinger Volume 77 © 1999 HTML PDF
Stephen Cole Kleene January 5, 1909 — January 25, 1994 by Saunders Mac Lane Volume 75 © 1998 HTML PDF
Heinrich Klüver May 25, 1897 — February 8, 1979 by Frederick K. D. Nahm and Karl H. Pribram Volume 73 © 1998 HTML PDF
Walter David Knight October 14, 1919–June 28, 2000 by Erwin L. Hahn, Vitaly V. Kresin, and John H. Reynolds Volume 82 © 2003 HTML PDF
Edward F. Knipling March 20, 1909–March 17, 2000 by Perry Adkisson and James Tumlinson Volume 83 © 2003 HTML PDF
Wolfgang Köhler January 21, 1887 — June 11, 1967 by Ulric Neisser Volume 81 © 2002 HTML PDF
Izaak Maurits Kolthoff February 11, 1894 — March 4, 1993 by Johannes F. Coetzee Volume 77 © 1999 HTML PDF
Tjalling Charles Koopmans August 28, 1910 — February 26, 1985 by Herbert E. Scarf Volume 67 © 1995 HTML PDF
Paul Jackson Kramer May 8, 1904 — May 24, 1995 by John S. Boyer and Aubrey W. Naylor Volume 72 © 1997 HTML PDF
Lester Orville Krampitz 1909 — 1993 by Robert Hogg, Charles G. Miller, and C. Willard Shuster Volume 71 © 1997 HTML PDF
Stephen W. Kuffler August 24, 1913 — October 11, 1980 by John G. Nicholls Volume 74 © 1998 HTML PDF
Simon S. Kuznets April 30, 1901 — July 9, 1985 by Robert W. Fogel Volume 79 © 2001 HTML PDF
Edwin Herbert Land May 7, 1909 — March 1, 1991 by Victor K. McElheny Volume 77 © 1999 HTML PDF
Anton Lang January 18, 1913 — June 24, 1996 by Hans Kende and Jan A. D. Zeevaart Volume 74 © 1998 HTML PDF
Robert Alfred Laudise September 2, 1930–August 20, 1998 by Donald Murphy Volume 85 © 2004 HTML PDF
Daniel Sanford Lehrman June 1, 1919 — August 27, 1972 by Jay S. Rosenblatt Volume 66 © 1995 HTML PDF
Robert B. Leighton September 10, 1919 — March 9, 1997 by Jesse L. Greenstein Volume 75 © 1998 HTML PDF
Israel Michael Lerner May 14, 1910 — June 12, 1977 by R. W. Allard Volume 69 © 1996 HTML PDF
Warren Kendall Lewis August 21, 1882 — March 9, 1975 by Hoyt C. Hottel Volume 70 © 1996 HTML PDF
Choh Hao Li April 21, 1913 — November 28, 1987 by R. David Cole Volume 70 © 1996 HTML PDF
Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider March 11, 1915 — June 26, 1990 by Robert M. Fano Volume 75 © 1998 HTML PDF
Samuel Colville Lind June 15, 1879 — February 12, 1965 by Keith J. Laidler Volume 74 © 1998 HTML PDF
Milton Stanley Livingston May 25, 1905 — August 25, 1986 by Ernest D. Courant Volume 72 © 1997 HTML PDF
Franklin Asbury Long July 27, 1910 — February 8, 1999 by Fred W. McLafferty, Barry K. Carpenter, and Jerrold Meinwald Volume 79 © 2001 HTML PDF
Lewis Gibson Longsworth November 16, 1904 — August 8, 1981 by Robert A. Alberty Volume 73 © 1998 HTML PDF
Thomas Seward Lovering May 12, 1896 — April 9, 1991 by Hal T. Morris Volume 69 © 1996 HTML PDF
Heinz Adolf Lowenstam October 9, 1912 –June 7, 1993 by Joseph L. Kirschvink Volume 83 © 2003 HTML PDF
Philip F. Low October 15, 1921 — January 14, 1997 by W. R. Gardner and C. B. Roth Volume 78 © 2000 HTML PDF
Willem Jacob Luyten