16 volumes of Biographical Memoirs.
first edition
1979 · Washington, D.C.:
by [Biographical Memoirs] National Academy of Sciences.
Washington, D.C.:: National Academy of Sciences, 1979-1998., 1979. 16 volumes. 8vo. Various paginations. Numerous biographies of noted scientists, photos, portraits, bibliog. Full cloth, 6 vols. with plain brown dust jackets. A few volumes with ownership rubber stamp or signature of Norman Horowitz. FINE. FIRST EDITIONS. Detailed biographies of many important figures in science such as: Percy Williams Bridgman, Edwin P. Hubble, George Richards Minot, Robert Frederick Loeb, Earl W. Sutherland, Albert Einstein, Vesto Melvin Slipher, George W. Beadle, Edward (truncated)