Biographical Memoirs

FIRST EDITIONS. Publisher’s cloth, many covered in protective brown paper. From the library of Robert S. Mullikan (1896-1986), winner of the 1966 Nobel Prize for chemistry. He was primarily responsible for the early development of molecular orbital method of computing the structure of molecules. His signature appears in Volumes 29-39. First printings. The biographical memoirs include a photograph and short biography of recently-deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences. Columbia University Press printed the Memoirs on behalf of the Academy through 1974; thereafter the Academy’s own press in Washington began publishing the books. Biographies of all members that passed away are included; we find such luminaries as Enrico Fermi, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Robert Andrew Millikan, Leo Loeb, William Castle, Arthur Compton, Robert Yerkes, Herbert Hoover, Leo Szilard, Edwin Hubble, Ernest Lawrence, Herbert Evans, Herbert Spencer Jennings, Harlow Shapley, Vannevar Bush and even Albert Einstein. All were members of the Academy.