Biographic Memoirs Volume 86 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
• Lawrence Hugh Aller
• Harry Beevers
• Frank Alden Bovey
• Norman Davidson
• Harry George Drickamer
• Harold Eugene Edgerton
• Howard E. Evans
• Willis H. Flygare
• Jesse Leonard Greenstein
• Donald R. Griffin
• Wassily Hoeffding
• D. Gale Johnson
• Robert Thomas Jones
• Norman Carl Rasmussen
• Glenn Wade Salisbury
• William Rees Sears
• Folke Karl Skoog
• Hiroshi Tamiya
• Evon Zartman Vogt, Jr.
• Robert M. Walker