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Academic journal
Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences Language English History 1877 to present Publisher ISO 4 Biogr. Mem. Natl. Acad. Sci. ISSN 0077-2933
The Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences has been published by the United States National Academy of Sciences since 1877 and presents biographies of selected members . This series of annual volumes (often abbreviated BMNAS ), and the analogous British Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society , are "important examples of biographical serials".[ 1]
The entries in the series are written by an academy member familiar with the subject's work and are written after the subject's death.[ 1] Each entry includes a biography, a photo, and a copy of the subject's signature .[ 2] Recent biographies from this series have also been made available online.[ 3]
References
^ a b Kent, Allen; Lancour, Harold; Daily, Jay E. (1979), "Scientific Literature: Biographical Serials", Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Volume 26: Role Indicators to St. Anselm-College Library (Rome) , CRC Press , p. 448, ISBN 9780824720261 .
^ "Publications of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (1915-1926)" , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , 13 (1), part II, p. 120, January 1927, doi :10.1073/pnas.13.1.114 , PMC 1085305 .
^ Modschiedler, Christa; Bennett, Denise Beaubien (2014), Guide to Reference in Medicine and Health , American Library Association , p. 114, ISBN 9780838912218 .
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