Biographical Memoirs
Published since 1877, Biographical Memoirs feature the life histories and selected bibliographies of deceased members. All of the memoirs published since 1877 are available online as PDFs:
Arthur H. Lachenbruch (1925-2021) »
by Barbara Lachenbruch (Geology)
Arthur Dodd Code (1923-2009) »
by David H. DeVorkin and Jordan D. Marché II (Astronomy)
Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000) »
by Dagfinn Føllesdal and Andreas Føllesdal (Social and Political Sciences)
Hilary Koprowski (1916-2013) »
by Charles E. Rupprecht and Stanley A. Plotkin (medical genetics, hematology, and oncology)
Alan G. MacDiarmid (1927-2007) »
by Richard B. Kaner and Andrew B. Holmes (chemistry)
Laszlo Lorand (1923-2018) »
by Indrani Mukharji (biochemistry)
Ted Belytschko (1943-2014) »
by Thomas J.R. Hughes (engineering sciences)
Ivan R. King (1927-2021) »
by Jay Anderson, S. George Djorgovski, and Christopher F. McKee (astronomy)
Marye Anne Fox (1947-2021) »
by Jonathan L. Sessler (chemistry)
E. Peter Geiduschek (1928-2022) »
by James T. Kadonaga, George A. Kassavetis, Jonathan M. Geiduschek, Jeremy M. Geiduschek, Joyce B. Geiduschek, and Amy S. Harris (biochemistry)
David S. Hogness (1925-2019) »
by Michael W. Young, Kenneth C. Burtis, and Mariana F. Wolfner (cellular and developmental biology)
Dan L. Lindsley Jr. (1925-2018) »
by James A. Kennison (genetics)
Elwyn L. Simons (1930-2016) »
by Ian Tattersall and John Fleagle (anthropology)
George H. Trilling (1930-2020) »
by Robert N. Cahn, Jonathan Dorfan, and Herbert Steiner (physics)
Felix H. Boehm (1924-2021) »
by Petr Vogel and Jean-Luc Vuilleumier (physics)
Clinton E. Ballou (1923-2021) »
by Gary R. Gray, Patrick Brennan, and Robert Barker (biochemistry)
George B. Dantzig (1914-2005) »
by Richard W. Cottle (applied mathematical sciences)
Irwin Fridovich (1929-2019) »
by James A. Imlay (biochemistry)
Marvin L. Goldberger (1922-2014) »
by Barry Barish, Curtis Callan, and John Schwarz (physics)
Frank D. Drake (1930-2022) »
by Kenneth Kellermann (astronomy)