Biographical Memoirs

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.

The entire collection of Biographical Memoirs is now available online as PDFs. The memoirs collection includes more than 1400 memoirs, including those of famed naturalist Louis Agassiz; Joseph Henry, the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; Thomas Edison; Alexander Graham Bell; noted anthropologist Margaret Mead; and psychologist and philosopher John Dewey. Join our mailing list to receive site updates as new memoirs are posted.

Alphabetical List of Available Memoirs
Monographs are available below as PDF files.

A | B | C | D | E | F | GH | I | J | K | L | M 
N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z 

A
Abbe, Cleveland (1838-1916)
Abbot, Charles G. (1872-1973)
Abbot, Henry L. (1831-1927)
Abel, John J. (1857-1938)
Adams, Comfort A. (1868-1958)
Adams, Leason H. (1887-1969)
Adams, Roger (1889-1971)
Adams, Walter S. (1876-1956)
Addis, Thomas (1881-1949)
Adkins, Homer (1892-1949)
Agassiz, Alexander (1835-1910)
Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873)
Ahlfors, Lars V. (1907-1996)
Aitken, Robert G. (1864-1951)
Albert, Abraham A. (1905-1972)
Albright, Fuller (1900-1969)
Albright, William F. (1891-1971)
Alexander, John H. (1812-1867)
Alexander, Stephen (1806-1883)
Allard, R. W. (1919-2003)
Allee, Warder C. (1885-1955)
Allen, Charles E. (1872-1954)
Allen, Eugene T. (1864-1964)
Allen, Joel A. (1838-1921)
Aller, Lawrence H. (1913-2003)
Allison, Samuel K. (1900-1965)
Almond, Gabriel A. (1911-2002)
Alvarez, Luis W. (1911-1988)
Ames, Joseph S. (1864-1943)
Amos, D. Bernard (1923-2003)
Anderson, Carl D. (1905 -1991)
Anderson, Edgar (1897-1969)
Anderson, Herbert L. (1914-1988)
Anderson, John A. (1876-1959)
Anderson, Rudolph J. (1879-1961)
Anderson, Thomas F. (1911-1991)
Andrews, Henry N., Jr. (1910-2002)
Angell, James R. (1869-1949)
Armsby, Henry P. (1853-1921)
Arnon, Daniel I. (1910-1994)
Astwood, Edwin B. (1909-1976)
Atkinson, George F. (1854-1918)
Aurbach, Gerald D. (1927-1991)
Avery, Oswald T. (1877-1955)
Axelrod, Julius (1912-2004)
Axtell, John D. (1934-2000)
Aydelotte, William O. (1910-1996)

 

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