Biographic Memoirs Volume 85 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again.

• Front Matter
• D. Bernard Amos
• Peter Michael Blau
• Salomon Bochner
• C. Chapin Cutler
• John Raven Johnson
• Elvin A. Kabat
• Berwind Petersen Kaufmann
• Robert Alfred Laudise
• Boyce Dawkins McDaniel
• William David McElroy
• Edwin Theodore Mertz
• William Aaron Nierenberg
• Chaim Leib Pekeris
• John Robinson Pierce
• John H. Reynolds
• Louis Byrne Slichter
• George Ledyard Stebbins
• Lewis Thomas
• Albert Edward Whitford
• Walter Henry Zinn