Biographical
Sources in the Sciences -- General Works and National Sources
Tracer Bullet 06-7
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This guide, a revision of Library of Congress Science Tracer
Bullet 88-3, offers a systematic approach to the wide variety
of published biographical information on men and women of science
and technology. Both historical and contemporary scientists are
covered, with emphasis on Americans. While citations to many
new works have been added, quite a few of the previous listings
have been retained, to allow consideration of evolving styles
in scientific biography. Among the changes adopted in this revision
are the indication of illustrations, particularly portraits,
and the inclusion of preliminary pagination extending to more
than 13 pages and unnumbered as well as numbered series notes.
Departing from the usual Tracer Bullet format, where one subject
is treated per publication, Biographical Resources in the
Sciences instead is being issued in three parts, General
Works; Life, Earth and Physical Sciences; and Technology
and Computer Science.
Each Tracer Bullet contains an introduction to the topic that
includes basic works on biography and a general listing of subject
headings. This part, TB06-7 includes General Works--Comprehensive;
General Works--Limited; Bibliographies and Indexes; National
Sources--United States; National and Regional Source--Selected
Other Countries; Abstracting and Indexing Services; Journals;
and Internet Resources.
Other biographical titles in the Science Tracer Bullet series
are African American Women in the Sciences and Related Disciplines
(TB93-4), Blacks in Science and Related Disciplines (TB89-9),
and Women in the Sciences (TB90-6).
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On Searching for Biographical Information
In seeking biographical information about scientists, one is
apt to encounter contrary difficulties, most easily described as "feast
or famine." Dozens of book-length biographies may be available
for the great figures, such as Newton or Darwin, while little or
nothing is ready to hand for less well known or obscure individuals.
A few suggestions may be in order for searchers confronted with
the latter situation. Look for journal articles; nowadays, authors'
affiliations are usually given, and these can provide a useful
starting point. Check membership directories of societies in the
scientist's field where varying amounts of biographical information
can often be found--at the very least, an address. If the individual
is no longer living, a death date will facilitate the search for
newspaper obituaries. If only the year of death is known, an obituary
may be found by browsing journals and/or society newsletters in
the scientist's field. The organization or institution that last
employed the scientist may be able to offer advice or assistance.
If the location of the person's home at the time of death is known,
consider addressing a query to the local library. Many libraries
keep clipping files devoted to noteworthy local residents, and
may even be able to supply addresses of surviving family members.
Published genealogies and local histories can be consulted as well.
If the scientist's educational background is known, examination
of college and university alumni magazines may produce information;
if these are not readily available, one can try contacting the
institution's alumni office.
Introductory Material
Chen, Ching-chih. Biographical sources. In Scientific and
technical information sources. 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 1987. p.
448-464.
Z7401.C48 1987 <SciRR Desk>
Elliott, Clark A. Models of the American scientist: a look at
collective biography. Isis, v. 73, Mar. 1982: 77-93.
Bibliographic footnotes.
Q1.I7, v. 73
"This note has a twofold aim: to identify some of the chief quantitative
works relating to the lives and careers of scientists in America, and to give
a preliminary outline of what seem to have been the chief characteristics of
the scientific population at various times prior to World War II."
Hankins, Thomas L. In defence of biography: the use of biography
in the history of science. History of science, v. 17, Mar. 1979:
1-16.
Q125.H63, v. 17, pt. 1
References (41): p. 14-16.
"... history of science places peculiar demands on the biographer, and it
is these demands that I should like to discuss in this paper."
Lederberg, Joshua. Introduction: reflections on scientific biography.
In The Excitement and fascination of science; reflections by
eminent scientists. v. 3, pt. 1. Compiled by Joshua Lederberg. Palo Alto,
CA, Annual Reviews, 1990. p. xvii-xxiv. illus.
Q171.E98, v. 3, pt. 1
References (22): p. xxiii-xxiv.
Williams, L. Pearce. The life of science and scientific lives.
Physis, rivista internazionale di storia della scienza, nuova ser.,
v. 28, fasc. 1, 1991: 199-213. illus.
Bibliographic footnotes.
Q54.P53, n.s., v. 28
"I would urge that until the biographical history of the giants is reasonably
complete, we shall not know much of importance about the history of science."
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Subject headings used by the Library of Congress, under which
biographical materials on scientists and engineers can be located
in most card, book, and online catalogs, include the following:
Highly Relevant
SCIENTISTS--BIOGRAPHY
SCIENTISTS--BIOGRAPHY--DICTIONARIES
SCIENTISTS--BIOGRAPHY--DIRECTORIES
SCIENTISTS--BIOGRAPHY--INDEXES
See also subdivision BIOGRAPHY under groups of scientists,
e.g.,
AFRO-AMERICAN MATHEMATICIANS; AFRO-AMERICAN SCIENTISTS; WOMEN ASTRONOMERS;
WOMEN SCIENTISTS; SCIENTISTS, PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED; SCIENTISTS, JEWISH; CATHOLIC
SCIENTISTS; SCIENTISTS, MUSLIM
SCIENTISTS--UNITED STATES--BIOGRAPHY
See also other countries or geographic areas, e.g., SCIENTISTS--CHINA--BIOGRAPHY;
SCIENTISTS--INDIA--BIOGRAPHY; SCIENTISTS--EUROPE--BIOGRAPHY;
SCIENTISTS--LATIN AMERICA--BIOGRAPHY
Relevant
MEDICINE--BIOGRAPHY
See also subdivision BIOGRAPHY under other scientific disciplines,
e.g., AERONAUTICS; ELECTRONIC DATA PROCESSING; PHOTOGRAPHY. Note: these headings
are used for collective biography only.
PHYSICS--BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY
See also subdivision BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY under other scientific
disciplines, e.g., GEOLOGY; MEDICINE; SCIENCE
ZOOLOGISTS--BIOGRAPHY
See also other occupational subject headings, with or without
geographic area subdivisions, e.g., ANATOMISTS; ASTRONOMERS; BIOCHEMISTS; BIOLOGISTS;
BOTANISTS; CHEMISTS; COMPUTER ENGINEERS; CONSERVATIONISTS; EARTH SCIENTISTS; ECOLOGISTS; ENGINEERS;
ENTOMOLOGISTS; GEOLOGISTS; INVENTORS; INDUSTRIALISTS; MALACOLOGISTS; MATHEMATICIANS;
METEOROLOGISTS; MICROBIOLOGISTS; MINERALOGISTS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGISTS; MYCOLOGISTS;
NATURALISTS; OCEANOGRAPHERS; ORNITHOLOGISTS; PALEONTOLOGISTS; PHYSICIANS; PHYSICISTS;
PSYCHIATRISTS; PSYCHOLOGISTS; TECHNOLOGISTS; VETERINARIANS
Related
SCIENTISTS--ANECDOTES
SCIENTISTS--ANECDOTES, FACETIAE, SATIRE,
ETC.
SCIENTISTS--CORRESPONDENCE
SCIENTISTS--CORRESPONDENCE, REMINISCENCES, ETC.
SCIENTISTS--INTERVIEWS
SCIENTISTS--PORTRAITS
See also subdivisions ANECDOTES; ANECDOTES, FACETIAE, SATIRE,
ETC.; CORRESPONDENCE; CORRESPONDENCE, REMINISCENCES, ETC.; INTERVIEWS; and PORTRAITS
under groups of scientists, e.g., ENGINEERS; PHYSICISTS; TECHNOLOGISTS, with
or without geographic area subdivisions
More General
BIOGRAPHY
OBITUARIES
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Alic, Margaret. Hypatia’s heritage: a history of women in
science from antiquity to the late nineteenth century. London, Women’s
Press, 1986. 230 p., [8] p. of plates. illus., ports.
Bibliography: p. 210-224.
Q130.A48 1986 <SciRR>
Asimov, Isaac. Asimov's biographical encyclopedia of science
and technology. The lives and achievements of 1510 great scientists
from ancient times to the present, chronologically arranged.
2nd rev. ed. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1982. xxxv, 941 p. [24]
p. of plates. ports.
Q141.A74 1982 <SciRR>
"Alphabetical list of biographical entries": p. xvii-xxxv.
The index lists subjects, as well as the "names of individuals other than those whose biographies are included in the book."
A Biographical dictionary of scientists. 3rd ed. Edited
by Trevor I. Williams. Assistant editor: Sonia Withers.
New York, Wiley, 1982. xiv, 674 p.
Q141.B528 1982 <SciRR Desk>
A list entitled "Anniversaries" (p. 617-649) is a chronological
arrangement of birth and death dates of scientists through 1981.
The Biographical dictionary of scientists. 3rd ed. Consultant
editors, Roy Porter, Marilyn Ogilvie. New York, Oxford University
Press, 2000. 2 v. (1196 p.) illus., ports.
Includes bibliographical references.
Q141.B528 2000 <SciRR Desk>
The Biographical dictionary of women in science: pioneering
lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century. Marilyn Ogilvie and
Joy Harvey, editors. New York, Routledge, 2000. 2 v. (xxxviii,
1499 p.)
Includes bibliographical references.
Q141.B5285 2000 <SciRR>
Indexes of scientists by occupation, time period, and country.
Biographical encyclopedia of scientists. 2nd ed. Edited
by John Daintith and others. Bristol, Philadelphia, Institute of
Physics Pub., 1994 2 v. (1075 p.) illus., ports.
Q141.B53 1994 <SciRR Desk>
Includes a chronology of scientific discoveries and publications (p. 989-1130)
and a section “giving accounts of the history and work of major scientific
centers” (p. 1031-1037).
A list of books on p. 1039-1053 is arranged by title; initial articles in any
language are treated as filing words.
Biographical encyclopedia of scientists. Editor, Richard Olson,
associate editor, Roger Smith. New York, Marshall Cavendish, c1998.
5 v. (lv, 1460 p., lxxx p.) illus.
Includes bibliographical references.
Q141.B532 1998 <SciRR>
Bol’shaia sovetskaia entsiklopediia. Biograficheskii
slovar’deiatelei
estestvoznaniia i tekhniki. Otv. redaktor, A. A. Zvorykin. Moskva,
1958-59. 2 v. ports.
Includes bibliographic references.
Q141.B67
“Spravochnaia biograficheskaia literatura”: v. 2, p. 443-467. Includes
lists of foreign publications with biographical information about scientists
and engineers.
Bunch, Bryan H. Appendix A. Obituaries: 1992-1994. In Handbook
of current science and technology. Detroit, Gale, 1996. p. 761-785.
Q158.B84 1996 <SciRR>
The Cambridge dictionary of scientists. 2nd ed. By David Millar
and others. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. 428 p.
illus., ports.
Q141.C128 2002 <MRR Biog>
Darmstaedter, Ludwig. Naturforscher und Erfinder; biographische
Miniaturen. New York, Johnson Reprint Corp., 1966. 182 p., [16]
leaves of plates. illus., facsims., ports. (The Sources of science,
no. 26)
Q141.D28 1966
Reprint of a work first published in 1926 by Velhagen & Klasing in Bielefeld.
Dictionary of scientific biography. Charles Coulston Gillispie,
editor in chief. New York, C. Scribner’s Sons, 1970-1980.
16 v.
Q141.D5 <SciRR Desk>
Vol. 15, Supplement; v. 16, Index.
Dictionary of scientific biography. Supplement II. Adams-Zwicky.
Frederic L. Holmes, editor in chief. New York, C. Scribner’s
Sons, 1990. 2 v.
Includes bibliographical references.
Q141.D5 1981 <SciRR Desk>
The first supplement (v. 15) contains, in addition to the biographies, seven
topical essays “on the scientific outlook and accomplishments of certain
ancient civilizations.” The index volume (v. 16) includes separate listings
of periodicals and societies, as well as lists of scientists by field. The
second volume (v. 18) of the second supplement also includes a comprehensive
index and lists of scientists by field.
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A chronology of the history
of science, 1450-1900. New York, Garland Pub., 1987. 585 p. (Garland
reference library of the humanities, v. 714)
Includes bibliographical references.
Q125.G39 1987 <SciRR>
Contents: pt. 1. The cognitive dimension. Arrangement by subjects.--pt. 2. The
social dimension. Arrangement by countries or regions.
Sketches of “the thousand most important scientists of the period” are
chronologically arranged in pt. 2. The index identifies these by bold entry numbers.
The Great scientists. Edited by Frank N. Magill. Danbury, CT,
Grolier Education Corp., 1989. 12 v. illus., ports.
Includes bibliographical references.
Q141.G767 1989 <SciRR>
Complete contents of the set is listed in each volume. An index by areas of
achievement is provided at the end of v. 12.
Grosse Naturwissenschaftler; biographisches Lexikon mit einer
Bibliographie zur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften. Hrsg. von
Fritz Krafft. 2., neubearb. und erw. Aufl. Dusseldorf, VDI, 1986.
456 p.
Bibliography: p. 365-435.
Q141.G85 1986 <SciRR>
Includes a chronological list of the scientists covered in the dictionary, as well as a six-page diagram of their life span and a name index.
Howard, Arthur V. Chambers's dictionary of scientists. London,
W. & R. Chambers, 1951. 500 columns.
Includes bibliographical references.
Q141.H69 1951a <SciRR>
A six-column supplement with updates through early 1955 is laid in.
Lists of Nobel Prize winners in physics, chemistry, and medicine, 1901-54, appear
on the lining papers at the end of the volume.
Les Inventeurs célèbres: sciences physiques et applications. Publié sous la direction de Louis Leprince-Ringuet. Paris,
L. Mazenod, 1950. 403 p., [168] p. of plates. illus. (some col.),
ports. (some col.) (La Galerie des hommes célèbres,
v. 6)
Q141.I5
A German edition, entitled Die Berühmten Erfinder: Physiker und Ingenieure,
was published in Geneva in 1951 (Q141.B43).
Jöcher, Christian Gottlieb. Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon.
Leipzig, J. F. Gleditsch, 1750-51. 4 v. port.
Z1010.J63 <MRR Biog>
Larousse dictionary of scientists. Editor, Hazel Muir. Edinburgh, New
York, Larousse, 1994. 595 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
Q141.L36 1994 <SciRR>
Provides a list of Nobel Prize winners in physics, chemistry, and physiology
or medicine, 1901-93. The index lists names under narrow topics.
Lenard, Philipp E. A. Great men of science; a history
of scientific progress. Translated from the 2nd German ed. by H. Stafford
Hatfield. With a pref. by E. N. da C. Andrade. Freeport, NY,
Books for Libraries Press, 1970. xx, 389 p., [48] p. of plates.
ports. (Essay index reprint series)
Bibliographic footnotes.
Q141.L62 1970 <SciRR>
Reprint of a work first published in New York by Macmillan Co. in 1933.
Lexikon der Naturwissenschaftler: Astronomen, Biologen,
Chemiker, Geologen, Mediziner, Physiker. Heidelberg, Spektrum Akademischer
Verlag, 1996. 505 p. ports.
Bibliography: p. 440.
Q141.L66 1996 <SciRR>
Provides brief sketches of more than 3,000 scientists. Concepts named for scientists
are described in marginal notes.
Includes lists of Nobel Prize winners in physics, chemistry, and physiology
or medicine, 1901-95, both chronologically in each field and in a single alphabet
by name, and a comprehensive subject index.
McGraw-Hill modern scientists and engineers. New York, McGraw-Hill,
1980. 3 v.
Includes bibliographical references.
Q141.M15 1980 <SciRR>
Previous ed. published under title McGraw-Hill modern men
of science (1966-68. 2 v.).
The third volume provides a list of names arranged by field of specialization and an analytical index.
Membership directory, Sigma XI, the Scientific Research Society. 1998. White
Plains, NY, B. C. Harris Pub. Co., 1998. xviii, 1363 p.
Q11.S67a 1998 <SciRR>
Includes a brief history of the society, answers to questions about membership,
a description of the society's programs, and a listing of Nobel Prize winners
who were or are members. Biographical entries are supplemented by lists of members
grouped by primary area of specialization and by geographic location. There is
also a separate listing of members' e-mail addresses.
The New York times biographical service. v. 1 1970- v. 32 Dec.
2001. New York, New York Times; Ann Arbor, MI, University Microfilms
International. monthly.
CT120.N45 <MRR Biog> <BRS Biog>
Indexes cumulated annually. Cumulated indexes 1970-1990 and 1980-1990.
Ceased with v. 32, no. 12 (Dec. 2001).
Title, 1970-1974: New York times biographical edition.
Newsmakers. 1985+ Detroit, Gale Research. ports.
CT120.C663 <MRR Biog> <BRS Biog>
3 no. a year, with annual cumulation.
Title, 1985-88: Contemporary newsmakers.
Indexes by nationality, occupation, subject, and name in the annual volumes are
cumulative.
Notable scientists from 1900 to the present. Updated 2nd ed.
Brigham Narins, editor. Farmington Hills, MI, Gale Group, c2001.
5 v. (xxxix, 2633 p.) ports
Includes bibliographical references.
Q141.N728 2001 <SciRR Desk>
Rev. ed of: Notable twentieth-century scientists. 1995; and Notable
twentieth-century scientists. Supplement. 1998.
Indexes by field of specialization, gender, nationality/ethnicity, and subject.
Poggendorff, J. C. Biographisch-literarisches Handwörterbuch
zur Geschichte der exakten Wissenschaften. Leipzig, Barth,
1863-1904; Verlag Chemie, 1925-40. 6 v. in 11.
Z7404.P74 <SciRR>
Contents: v. 1-2. To 1857.--v. 3. 1858-83.--v. 4. 1883-1904.--v.
5. 1904-22.--v. 6. 1923-31.
Poggendorff, J. C. Biographisch-literarisches Handwörterbuch
der exakten Naturwissenschaften. Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1955+
Z7404.P74 <SciRR>
Beginning with v. 7, the series is subdivided into two parts: v. 7a covers scientists
from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, 1932-53, and v. 7b, scientists from other
countries, 1932-62. SciRR set is incomplete.
Scientists: the lives and works of 150 scientists. Peggy Saari
and Stephen Allison, editors. Detroit, U·X·L, 1996-2003.
7 v. illus., ports.
Includes bibliographical references.
Q141.S3717 1996 <SciRR>
Vols. 4-6 edited by Marie C. Ellavich; v. 7 edited by Tanya Lee Stone. Vols.
4-7 have subtitle: Their lives and works. Vols. 4-7 each contain a cumulative
index.
Scienziati e tecnologi dalle origini al 1875. v. 1+
Milano, A. Mondadori, 1975+ + illus. (some col.), facsims. (some
col.), ports. (some col.)
Q141.S372
Contents: v. 1. Da Abano, Pietro d' a Gibbs, Josiah Willard.--
Turkevich, John, and Ludmilla B. Turkevich. Prominent scientists
of continental Europe. New York, American Elsevier, 1968. 204 p.
Q141.T82 <SciRR>
Brief entries are alphabetically listed for each of 23 countries.
Who's who in European research and development. 1995+ London,
New Jersey, Bowker-Saur.
Q141.W56 2003 <SciRR Desk>
Who’s who in science and engineering. 8th ed. 2005-2006. Wilmette, IL,
Marquis Who’s Who, 2004. 2374 p.
Q141.W576 <SciRR Desk> and Electronic format
Who's who in science in Europe: a biographical guide in science,
technology, agriculture, and medicine. 9th ed. London, Cartermill
International; New York, Stockton, 1995. 2 v. (2084 p.)
Q141.W59 1995 <SciRR Desk>
A subject index (p. 2029-2084) lists names under professional fields for each of the 36 countries included.
World of scientific discovery. 1994+ Detroit, Gale Research Inc.
Q121.W676 <SciRR>
Latest edition in Science Reading Room.
World who's who in science; a biographical dictionary of
notable scientists from antiquity to the present. Editor: Allen G. Debus.
Chicago, Marquis-Who's Who, 1968. xvi, 1855 p.
Bibliography: p. xi.
Q141.W7 <SciRR Desk>
Nobel Prize winners in physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine, 1901-67,
are listed on the lining papers.
UXL newsmakers. 2005+ Detroit, Thomson Gale
CT120.U96
Each annual ed. is published in multiple
Zahm, John Augustine. Woman in science; with an introductory
chapter on woman's long struggle for things of the mind.
By H. J. Mozans [psued.] Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press,
1974. xvii, 452 p.
Bibliography: p. 419-426.
Q147.Z26 1974 <SciRR>
Reprint, with a new introduction by Mildred S. Dresselhaus, of a work first published
in 1913 by D. Appleton in New York.
Contents: 1. Woman's long struggle for things of the mind.--2. Woman's capacity
for scientific pursuits.--3. Women in mathematics.--4. Women in astronomy.--5.
Women in physics.--6. Women in chemistry.--7. Women in the natural sciences.--8.
Women in medicine and surgery.--9. Women in archaeology.--10. Women as inventors.--11.
Women as inspirers and collaborators in science.--12. The future of women in
science: summary and epilogue.
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Die 100 des Jahrhunderts: Naturwissenschaftler. Reinbek
bei Hamburg, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, 1994. 208 p. ports. (Rororo
Handbuch)
Q141.A156 1994
Arago, Dominique François Jean. Biographies of distinguished
scientific men. Translated by W. H. Smyth, Baden Powell, and Robert
Grant. Freeport, NY, Books for Libraries Press, 1972. 2 v. (Essay
index reprint series)
Q141.A65 1972
Reprint of a work first published in 1859 by Ticknor and Fields in Boston.
Arago's autobiography (to 1830) is followed by memoirs of Bailly, William Herschel,
Laplace, Fourier, Lazare Carnot, Malus, Fresnel, Thomas Young, and James Watt.
Bailey, Brooke. The remarkable lives of 100 women healers and scientists.
Holbrook, MA, B. Adams, 1994. 208 p. (20th century women)
Includes bibliographical references.
R692.B35 1994 <SciRR>
Index by occupation: p. 205-208.
Bass, Thomas A. Reinventing the future: conversations with
the world's leading scientists. Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley Pub. Co.,
1994. 249 p. ports.
Bibliography: p. 245-248.
Q141.B32 1994
Sarah Hrdy, Luc Montagnier, James Black, Thomas Adeoye Lambo, Etienne-Emile
Baulieu, Richard Dawkins, Farouk El-Baz, Bert Sakmann, Jonathan Mann, Norman
Packard, and Mary-Claire King.
Bildnisse zeitgenössischer Physiker Herrn Viktor von Lang
zu seinem 70. Geburtstag (2. März 1908) gewidmet. [Wien? 1908]
341 ports. on 44 leaves.
QC15.B5
Biographical studies. In Despite the odds; essays on Canadian women
and science. Edited by Marianne Gosztonyi Ainley. Montreal, Véhicule
Press; U.S. distribution, University of Toronto Press, Buffalo, NY, 1990.
p. 179-262. illus., ports.
Bibliography: p. 419-431.
Q130.D47 1990
Essays on Maude Abbott, Harriet Brooks, Alice Wilson, Isabella Preston, Margaret
Newton, Cypra Cecilia Krieger, and Blossom Wigdor.
Biographical studies. In Uneasy careers and intimate lives:
women in science, 1789-1979. Edited by Pnina G. Abir-Am and Dorinda
Outram. With a foreword by Margaret W. Rossiter. New Brunswick,
NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1987. p. 129-280. ports.
Bibliography: p. 314-354.
Q130.U525 1987
Essays on Maria Mitchell, Clémence Royer, Sofia Kovalevskaia, Marie
Curie, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, and Dorothy Wrinch.
Brian, Denis. Genius talk: conversations with Nobel scientists
and other luminaries. New York, Plenum Press, 1995. 423 p. ports.
Bibliography: p. 407-413.
Q141.B817 1995
Bridges, Thomas C., and H. Hessell Tiltman. Master minds
of modern science. London, G. G. Harrap, 1930. 278 p., [32]
leaves of plates. illus., ports.
Q141.B83
Cohen, Harry, and Itzhak J. Carmin, eds. Jews in the world
of science; a biographical dictionary of Jews eminent in the
natural
and social sciences. New York, Monde Publishers, 1956. xxiv,
264 p. ports.
Q128.C65
Creese, Mary R. S. Ladies in the laboratory? American and
British women in science, 1800-1900; a survey of their contributions
to
research. With contributions by Thomas M. Creese. Lanham, MD, Scarecrow
Press, 1998. 452 p. illus.
Bibliography: p. 439-441.
Q141.C69 1998 <SciRR>
"Bibliography of papers by American and British women in scientific periodicals,
1800-1900": p. 371-437
Creese, Mary R. S. Ladies in the laboratory II: West European
women in science, 1800-1900; a survey of their contributions to
research. With contributions by Thomas M. Creese. Lanham, MD, Scarecrow
Press, 2004. 290 p. illus.
Bibliography: p. 283-285.
Q141.C693 2004 <SciRR>
“Bibliography of papers by West European Women (excluding the British)
in scientific periodicals, 1800-1900": p. 237-274.
Crowther, J. G. Scientific types. London, Barrie & Rockliff,
the Cresset Press, 1968. 408 p., [12] leaves of plates. ports.
Bibliography: p. 393-399.
Q141.C715
Contents: Individual investigators. Charles Thomson Rees Wilson. John William
Strutt, Third Lord Rayleigh. Thomas Young.--Teachers. Thomas Henry Huxley.
John Tyndall. Augustus De Morgan.--Scientist inventors. James Dewar. Osborne
Reynolds. Charles Babbage.--Organizers. Walter Morley Fletcher. Arthur Schuster.
George Biddell Airy.
Downs, Robert Bingham. Landmarks in science: Hippocrates
to Carson. Littleton, CO, Libraries Unlimited, 1982. 305 p.
Bibliography: p. 291-299.
Q125.D68 1982 <SciRR>
A survey of 74 "masterworks in science from ancient to modern times" and
their authors.
The Excitement and fascination of science. Palo Alto, CA, Annual
Reviews, 1965-1995. 4 v.
Q171.E98
Includes bibliographical references.
Vol. 2, with subtitle Reflections by eminent scientists, compiled by W. C.
Gibson.
"Reprinted from the Annual review of biochemistry, the Annual
review of
pharmacology, the Annual review of physical chemistry, and the Annual
review
of physiology."
-Vol. 3 has subtitle Reflections by eminent scientists,
compiled by Joshua Lederberg.
"Reprinted from the Annual review of anthropology ... [et al.]"
Vol. 4, has subtitle Reflections by eminent scientists, compiled by Robert
H. Haynes and William Kaufmann.
Feldman, Anthony, and Peter Ford. Scientists & inventors.
Update editor, Graham Yost. New York, Facts on File, 1986. 352
p. illus. (some col.), facsims. (some col.), ports. (some col.)
T39.F37 1986 <SciRR>
Sketches of more than 150 inventors and scientists are presented in chronological
order.
Haber, Louis. Women pioneers of science. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
1979. xvii, 171 p. ports.
Bibliography: p. 159-165.
Q141.H215 <SciRR>
Alice Hamilton, Florence Rena Sabin, Lise Meitner, Leta S. Hollingworth, Rachel
Fuller Brown, Gladys Anderson Emerson, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Myra Adele Logan,
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Jane C. Wright, Rosalyn S. Yalow, and Sylvia Earle
Mead.
Halacy, D. S. They gave their names to science. New
York, Putnam's Sons, 1967. 159 p.facsims., ports.
Q141.H22 <SciRR>
Chapters are devoted to Mach, Mendel, Doppler, Geiger, Sadi
Carnot, Coriolis, Mohorovicic, Van Allen, Mössbauer, and Nobel.
An epilogue (p. 149-156) lists 165 scientists, including those mentioned above,
along with the theories, laws, effects, objects, constants, diseases, instruments,
and units of measurement to which their names have been attached.
Harré, Rom, ed. Early seventeenth century scientists. Oxford, New
York, Pergamon Press, 1965. 188 p., [4] leaves of plates. illus., ports.
(The Commonwealth and international library. Liberal studies division. Science
and society, v. 1)
Includes bibliographical references.
Q141.H29 1965
Essays on William Gilbert, Francis Bacon, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, William
Harvey, Johann van Helmont, and René Descartes.
Jones, Bessie Zaban., ed. The golden age of science; thirty
portraits of the giants of 19th-century science, by their scientific
contemporaries.
New York, Simon and Schuster, in cooperation with the Smithsonian
Institution, 1966. xxxii, 659 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
Q141.J68 <SciRR>
Lang, Harry G., and Bonnie Meath-Lang. Deaf persons in the arts and
sciences, a biographical dictionary. Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1995. xvii, 424 p. ports.
Bibliography: p. 411.
HV2373.L36 1995
Arrangement is alphabetical, with names listed by field in an appendix. Another
appendix provides brief notes on additional individuals.
Late seventeenth century scientists. Editor: Donald
Hutchings. Oxford, New York, Pergamon Press, 1969. 183 p. illus.
(The Commonwealth and international library. Education and education
research)
Includes bibliographical references.
Q141.L37 1969
Includes: Robert Boyle, Marcello Malpighi, Christopher Wren,
Christiaan Huygens, Robert Hooke, and Isaac Newton.
Lindop, Laurie. Scientists and doctors. New York, Twenty-First
Century Books, 1997. 128 p. ports. (some col.) (Dynamic modern
women)
Bibliography: p. 125-126.
Q141.L6813 1997
Mildred Dresselhaus, Biruté Galdikas, Mae Jemison, Mary-Claire King, Mary
Leakey, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Susan Love, Helen Taussig, Chien-Shiung Wu, and
Rosalyn Yalow
Nobel Prize winners: an H. W. Wilson biographical dictionary.
Editor, Tyler Wasson; consultants, Gert H. Brieger and others.
New York, H. W. Wilson, 1987. xxxiv, 1165 p. ports.
Includes bibliographical references.
AS911.N9N59 1987 <SciRR>
Biographies of laureates through 1986 are alphabetically
arranged. A list of the winners by category and year is given on p. xiii-xix.
Other introductory matter includes a biography of Alfred Nobel and an essay
on the Nobel Prizes and Nobel institutions.
Nobel Prize winners. Supplement 1987-1991: an H. W. Wilson
biographical dictionary. Editor, Paula McGuire. New York, H. W. Wilson Co.,
1992. 143 p. ports.
Includes bibliographical references.
AS911.N9N59 1987 Suppl. <SciRR>
Provides lists of laureates by category and year, and by country of residence,
1901-1990, and a list of those who have died since 1986.
Nobel Prize winners. Supplement 1992-1996: an H. W. Wilson
biographical dictionary. Editor, Clifford Thompson. New York, H. W. Wilson Co.,
1997. 165 p. ports.
Includes bibliographical references.
AS911.N9N59 1992 Suppl. <SciRR>
Provides lists of laureates by category and year, and by country of residence,
1901-1996, and a list of those who have died since 1991.
Nobel Prize winners. 1997-2001, supplement: an H. W. Wilson
biographical dictionary. Editor, Mari Rich. New York, H. W. Wilson, 2002. xl,
155 p. illus.
Includes bibliographical references.
AS911.N9N59 2002 Suppl. <SciRR>
Provides lists of laureates by category and year, and by country of residence,
1901-2001, and a list of those who have died since 1996.
Oakes, Elizabeth H. Encyclopedia of world scientists. New York,
Facts on File, 2001. 450 p. ports.
Bibliography: 409-410.
Q141.O25 2001 <SciRR>
Includes indexes of entries by field, country of birth, country of major scientific
activity, and year of birth.
Oakes, Elizabeth H. International encyclopedia of women scientists. New
York, Facts on File, 2002. xiv, 448 p. ports.
Q141.O27 2002 <SciRR>
Bibliography: p. 399-400.
Oesper, Ralph E. The human side of scientists. Cincinnati, University
Publications, University of Cincinnati, 1975. xiv, 218 p.
Bibliography: p. 211-218.
Q141.O33
Anecdotes involving 133 scientists are preceded by brief summaries of their
lives and accomplishments.
Olby, Robert C., ed. Early nineteenth century European scientists.
Oxford, New York, Pergamon Press, 1967. 179 p. illus., ports. (The
Commonwealth and international library. Liberal studies division)
Includes bibliographical references.
Q141.O38 1967
Includes: Humphry Davy, Jons Jacob Berzelius, Thomas Young,
Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot, Charles Lyell, and
Adolphe Quetelet.
Olby, Robert C., ed. Late eighteenth century European scientists. Oxford,
New York, Pergamon Press, 1966. 209 p ., [3] leaves of plates.
illus. (The Commonwealth and international library. Liberal studies
division. Science and society, v. 2)
Includes bibliographical references.
Q141.O4 1966
Includes: Jean Lamarck, Joseph Koelreuter, Antoine Lavoisier,
Henry Cavendish, Alessandro Volta, James Watt, and William Herschel.
A Passion to know; 20 profiles in science. Allen L. Hammond, editor. New
York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1984. 240 p. ports.
Bibliography: p. 225-234.
Q141.P374 1984
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Carleton Gajdusek, Sheldon Glashow, Margaret Mead,
Gerald Wasserburg, Robert Trivers, Kurt Gödel, Bernd Heinrich, Frank Oppenheimer,
Michael McElroy, Barbara McClintock, Charles Darwin, Robert Wilson, Herbert Simon,
James Lovelock, Birgit Zipser, John Wheeler, Tuzo Wilson, Mark Ptashne, and Albert
Einstein.
Scientific American. Lives in science. New York, Simon
and Schuster, 1957. 274 p. illus., ports.
Bibliography: p. 271-274.
Q141.S37
Galileo, Newton, Hooke, Laplace, Sir William Rowan Hamilton, G. F. Fitzgerald, Priestley, Lavoisier, Franklin, Faraday, Joseph Henry, Maxwell, Harvey, Darwin, Pavlov, Babbage, Lewis Carroll, and Ramanujan.
Scientific genius and creativity; readings from Scientific
American. With an introd. by Owen Gingerich.
New York, W. H. Freeman, 1987. 110 p. illus. (some col.), facsims.
(some col.), maps (some col.), ports. (some col.).
Bibliography: p. 107-108.
Q141.S293 1987
Includes essays on William Harvey, Newton, Boyle, Lavoisier, Gauss, Galois, Joseph Henry, Darwin, Wegener, and Millikan.
Simmons, John G. The scientific 100: a ranking of the most influential
scientists, past and present. Secaucus, NJ, Carol Pub. Group, 1996. xix,
504 p. illus., ports.
Bibliography: p. 487-495.
Q148.S55 1996 <SciRR>
Stille, Darlene R. Extraordinary women scientists. Chicago, Childrens
Press, 1995. 208 p. ports.
Bibliography: p. 199-200.
Q130.S75 1995 <SciRR>
Biographies of 49 individuals and four groups: "Women scientists from
ancient times to the Age of Reason," "A Legacy of women doctors," "Women
mathematicians," and "Women inventors and engineers."
Walsh, James Joseph. Catholic churchmen in science; sketches
of the lives of Catholic ecclesiastics who were among the great
founders
in science Philadelphia,
American Ecclesiastical Review, Dolphin Press, 1906-17. 3 v.
Q141.W22
Weisgerber, Robert A. The challenged scientists: disabilities
and the triumph of excellence. New York, Praeger, 1991. 193 p. ports.
Bibliography: p. 189-190.
Q149.U5W45 1991
Includes profiles of eight students and 13 working professionals.
The Who's who of Nobel Prize winners, 1901-2000. 4th
ed. Edited by Louise S. Sherby. Westport, CT, Oryx Press, 2002.
xxiii, 277 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
AS911.N9W53 2002<SciRR>
Wilson, Grove. The human side of science. . New York,
Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1929. 397 p., [12] leaves of plates. ports.
Bibliography: p. 391-397.
Q141.W65
Wolpert, L., and Alison Richards. A passion for science. Oxford, New York,
Oxford University Press, 1988. 206 p. ports.
Q173.W79 1988
Interviews with Abdus Salam, Martin Rees, Michael Berry, Christopher Zeeman,
Dorothy Hodgkin, Francis Crick, Sydney Brenner, Gunther Stent, John Maynard Smith,
Stephen Jay Gould, Anthony Epstein, Walter Bodmer, and Richard Gregory.
Wolpert, L., and Alison Richards. Passionate minds: the inner
world of scientists. A companion volume to A Passion for Science.
Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press, 1997. 240 p. ports.
Q141.W6786 1997
Interviews with Carl Djerassi, Roald Hoffmann, Jared Diamond, Leroy Hood, David
Weatherall, James Lighthill, James Lovelock, Peter Mitchell, John Cairns, Richard
Lewontin, Antonio Garcia Bellido, James Black, Gerald Edelman, Michael Berridge,
Elwyn Simons, Murray Gell-Mann, Sheldon Glashow, Nicole Le Douarin, Gerald
Holton, Carlo Rubbia, David Pilbeam, Anne McLaren, and Avrion Mitchison.
Yost, Edna. Women of modern science. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1959.
176 p., [8] p. of plates. ports.
Q130.Y63
Gerty Theresa Cori, Lise Meitner, Helen Sawyer Hogg, Elizabeth Shull Russell,
Rachel Fuller Brown, Chien Shiung Wu, Edith Hinkley Quimby, Jocelyn Crane,
Florence van Straten, Gladys Anderson Emerson, and Dorothea Rudnick.
Yount, Lisa. Twentieth-century women scientists. New York, Facts
on File, 1996. xvii, 123 p. illus., ports. (Global profiles)
Includes bibliographical references.
Q141.Y69 1996
Lise Meitner, Barbara McClintock, Rita Levi-Montalcini, E. Margaret Burbidge,
Katsuko Saruhashi, Rosalind Elsie Franklin, R. Rajalakshmi, Lydia Phindile
Makhubu, Biruté M. F. Galdikas, and Kutlu Aslihan Yener.
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American biographical index. Compiled by Laureen Baillie. 2nd
cumulated and enl. ed. München, K. G. Saur, 1998. 10 v. (xxiv,
4200 p.)
CT213.A64 1998 <MRR> and Electronic format
Alternative title: Amerikanischer biographischer Index.
Each entry in the index cites references to biographical sources and supplies
fiche and frame numbers to the accompanying microfiche sets, entitled American
biographical archive (Microfiche 90/7009 (C)) and American biographical
archive,
ser. II (Microfiche 97/15 (C)), which are also held in MicRR. Texts of the cited
references are reproduced in the microfiche sets.
Australasian biographical index. Edited and compiled by Victor
Herrero Mediavilla. München, New Providence, NJ, K. G. Saur,
1996. 3 v. (xv, 1326 p.)
CT2775.A87 1996 <MRR> and Electronic format
Alternative title: Australasiatischer biographischer
Index.
Each entry in the index cites references to biographical sources and supplies
fiche and frame numbers to the accompanying microfiche set, entitled Australasian
biographical archive (Microfiche 96/154 (C)), which is also held in MicRR.
Texts of the cited references are reproduced in the microfiche set.
Barr, E. Scott. An index to biographical fragments in
unspecialized scientific journals. University, Ala., University
of Alabama Press, 1973. 294 p.
Q141.B29 <SciRR>
"This index covers about 7700 individuals, providing about 15,000 citations and about 1500 portrait locations" found in seven journals.
Biografische index van de Benelux. Samengesteld door Willemena van der
Meer. München, K. G. Saur, 1997. 4 v. (1604 p.)
CT1139.B56 1997 Benelux <EuRR> and Electronic format
Alternative titles: Index biographique de pays du Bénélux; Biographischer Index der Benelux-Länder.
Each entry in the index cites references to biographical sources and supplies
fiche and frame numbers to the accompanying microfiche set, entitled Biografisch
archief van de Benelux (94/2001 (C)), which is held in MicRR.
(2003 ed. not in LC)
Biographischer Index der Antike. Bearb. von Hilmar Schmuck.
München, K. G. Saur, 2001. 3 v. (1034 p.)
DE7.B56 2001 <MRR>
Alternative title: Biographical index of the classical world.
Alphabetical listing of 50,821 biographies contained in the Biographisches
Archiv der Antike (97/358 (P)), held in MiCRR, which consists of articles extracted
from 87 titles originally published between 1820 and 1994.
Contents: 1. A-E--2. F-0--3. P-Z.
Biography and genealogy master index; a consolidated index
to more than 3,200,000 biographical sketches in over 350 current
and
retrospective biographical dictionaries. 2nd ed. Edited by
Miranda C. Herbert and Barbara McNeil. Detroit, Gale Research
Co., 1980- 2005. (Gale biographical index series, no. 1)
Z5305.U5B57 1980 <MRR Biog> <BRS Biog> and
Electronic format
Kept up to date by annual supplements (some in more than one
part), and by quinquennial cumulations of the annual supplements: 1981-85 (5
v.), 1986-1990 (3 v.), 1991-1995 (3 v.), 1996-2000 (4 v.)
Biography index; a cumulative index to biographical material
in books and magazines. v. 1+ Jan. 1946+ New York, H. W. Wilson
Co.
Z5301.B5 SSRR <MRR Biog> <BRS Biog> and Electronic
format
Quarterly, with cumulations--triennial, Jan. 1946-Aug. 1982;
biennial, Sept. 1982-Aug. 1992; annual, Sept. 1992+.
Each issue includes an index to professions and occupations
British biographical index. 2nd cumulated and enl. ed. Edited by David Bank
and Theresa McDonald. München, K.G. Saur, 1998. 7 v. (xxviii, 3179 p.)
CT773.B75 1998 <MRR> and Electronic format
Alternative title: Britischer biographischer Index.
Each entry in the index cites references to biographical sources and supplies
fiche and frame numbers to the accompanying microfiche sets, entitled British
biographical archive (86/901 (C)) and British biographical archive,
ser. 2 (97/1
(C) ), which are also held in MicRR. Texts of the cited references are reproduced
in the microfiche sets.
Chinese biographical index. Compiled by Stephan von Minden. München,
K.G. Saur, 2000. 3 v. (xiii, 1197 p.)
CT1821.C45 2000 <MRR>
Alternative title: Chinesischer biographischer Index.
Index to the microfiche collection entitled Chinese biographical
archive (97/359
(C)) also held in MicRR.
Contents: 1. A-K--2. L-V--3. W-Z.
Deutscher biographischer Index. 2. kumulierte und erw. Ausg.
München, K. G. Saur, 1998. 8 v. (xxiv, 4017 p.)
Z5305.G3K63 1998 <MRR> and Electronic format
Alternative title: German biographical index.
Each entry in the index cites references to biographical sources and supplies
fiche and frame numbers to the accompanying microfiche sets, entitled Deutsches
biographisches Archiv (86/900 (C)) and Deutsches biographisches Archiv,
N.F., (90/8113 (C)) which are also held in MicRR. Texts of the cited references are
reproduced in the microfiche sets.
(2004 ed. not in LC.)
Herrero Mediavilla, Victor. African biographical index. München, K.G.
Saur, 1999. 3 v. (xviii, 1134 p.)
Z5305.A38H47 1999 <MRR>
Bibliography: p. xiii-xviii.
Alternative titles: Index biographique Africain; Afrikanischer biographischer
Index.
Contents: 1. A-Gebru--2. Gecaga-Mzozoyana--3. Na Abba-Z.
Index to African biographical archive (99/42), which is also held in MicRR, a
microfiche reprint of 233 biographical reference works published between 1807
and 1993. (Library of Congress michrofiche set is incomplete).
Herzenberg, Caroline L. Women scientists from antiquity to the
present, an index; an international reference listing and biographical
directory of some notable women scientists from ancient to modern
times. West Cornwall, Conn., Locust Hill Press, 1986. xxxix, 200
p.
Q141.H475 1986 <SciRR>
Includes an introductory essay, "Early women scientists and engineers" (p. xi-xxviii).
"References: bibliography and source abbreviation key": p. xxix-xxxvii.
Names of women for whom references are provided are listed alphabetically. This is followed by a section entitled "Women scientists listed by field."
Howsam, Leslie. Scientists since 1660; a bibliography of
biographies. Aldershot, Hants, Brookfield, VT, Ashgate, 1997. 150 p.
Z7401.H66 1997 <SciRR>
Lists 1,106 book-length biographies in English for "565 men and women of
science whose careers began during or after the burgeoning of modern science
around 1660 ..." Appendices list the names of scientists by field of specialization,
by names of major publishers of the biographies, and by names of any series in
which the biographies were issued.
Index biographique français. 2ème éd. cumulée
et augm. Compilé par Tommaso Nappo. München, K. G.
Saur, 1998. 7 v. (xxiii, 3310 p.)
CT1003.I53 1998 <MRR> and Electronic format
Alternative titles: French biographical index; Franzosischer biographischer
Index.
Each entry in the index cites references to biographical sources and supplies
fiche and frame numbers to the accompanying microfiche sets, entitled Archives
biographiques françaises (90/7007 (C)) and Archives biographiques
françaises,
2 sér. (97/13 (C)), which are also held in MicRR. Texts of the cited
references are reproduced in the microfiche sets.
(2004 ed. not in LC)
Indice biográfico de España, Portugal e Iberoamérica.
3. ed., corr. y ampliada. Editado e dirigado por Victor Herrero
Mediavilla. München, New Providence, NJ, K. G. Saur, 2000.
10 v. (3586 p.)
CT1345.I53 2000 <MRR> and Electronic format
Alternative titles: Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American biographical
index; Indice biográfico de Espanha, Portugal e Ibero-América;
Spanischer, Portugiesischer und Iberoamerikanischer Biographischer Index.
Each entry in the index cites references to biographical sources and supplies
fiche and frame numbers to the accompanying microfiche sets, entitled Archivo
biográfico de España, Portugal e Iberoamérica (90/12 (C));
Archivo biográfico de España, Portugal e Iberoamérica,
nueva serie (97/5); and Archivo biográfico de España, Portugal
e Iberoamérica, (1960-1995) (97/6 (C)), which are also held in MicRR.
Texts of the cited references are reproduced in the microfiche sets.
Indice biografico italiano. 2a ed., corr. ed ampliata. A cura
di Tommaso Nappo. München, K. G. Saur, 1997. 7 v. (xxxii,
2650 p.)
CT1123.I53 1997 <MRR> and Electronic format
Each entry in the index cites references to biographical sources and supplies
fiche and frame numbers to the accompanying microfiche sets, entitled Archivio
biografico italiano (90/8108 (D)) and Archivio biografico italiano, nuova serie
(96/158 (C)), which are also held in MicRR. Texts of the cited references are
reproduced in the microfiche sets.
(2001 ed. not in LC)
Ireland, Norma Olin. Index to scientists of the world, from
ancient to modern times; biographies and portraits. Boston,
Mass., F. W. Faxon Co., 1962. xliii, 662 p. (Useful reference
series, no. 90)
Z7404.I7 <SciRR>
"List of collections analyzed in this work and key to symbols used": p. xvii-xliii.
ISIS cumulative bibliography; a bibliography of the history
of science formed from ISIS critical bibliographies 1-90, 1913-65. Edited by Magda Whitrow. Chairman of editorial committee, I. Bernard
Cohen. London, Mansell in conjunction with the History of Science
Society, 1971-84. 6 v.
Z7405.H6I2 <SciRR>
Contents: v. 1. Personalities, A-J.--v. 2. Personalities, K-Z.
Institutions.--v. 3. Subjects.--v. 4. Civilizations and periods, prehistory to
Middle Ages.--v. 5. Civilizations and periods, 15th to 19th centuries.--v. 6.
Author index.
ISIS cumulative bibliography, 1966-1975; a bibliography of
the history of science formed from ISIS critical bibliographies
91-100
indexing literature published from 1965 through 1974. Edited
by John Neu. London, Mansell in conjunction with the History of
Science
Society, 198085. 2v.
Z7405.H6I2 Suppl. <SciRR>
Contents: v. 1. Personalities and institutions.--v. 2. Subjects,
periods and civilizations.
ISIS cumulative bibliography, 1976-1985; a bibliography of the history
of science formed from ISIS critical bibliographies 101-110 indexing
literature published from 1975 through 1984. Edited by John Neu. Boston, G. K. Hall
in conjunction with the History of Science Society, 1989. 2 v.
Z7405.H6I2 Suppl. 2 <SciRR>
Contents: v. 1. Persons and institutions.--v. 2. Subjects, periods and civilizations.
ISIS cumulative bibliography, 1986-1995; a bibliography of
the history of science formed from the annual ISIS current bibliographies.
Edited by John Neu. Canton, MA, Published for the History of Science
Society by Science History Publications/USA, 1997. 4 v. (xxx, 1362
p.)
Z7405.H6I2 Suppl. 3 <SciRR>
Contents: v. 1. Persons, A-L.--v. 2. Persons, M-Z. Institutions.--3. Subjects.
Time periods, antiquity through 18th century.--v. 4. Time periods, 19th and
20th centuries.
"In all likelihood, this will be the final printed cumulation of the ISIS
bibliographies, since the material is now available also electronically through
the Research Libraries Information Network."--Editor's introduction
Jüdischer biographischer Index. Opracowany przez Hilmar
Schmuck. München, K. G. Saur, 1998. 4 v. (xiii, 1491 p.)
DS115.J84 1998 <MRR>
Alternative title: Jewish biographical index.
Each entry in the index cites references to biographical sources and supplies
fiche and frame numbers to the accompanying microfiche set, entitled Jüdisches
biographisches Archiv (97/2 (D)), which is also held in MicRR. Texts of the cited
references are reproduced in the microfiche set.
There is also an index listing names under occupational headings (p. 1099-1491).
(2000/2005 ed. not in LC)
Levy, Felice D. Obituaries on file. New York, Facts on File,
1979. 2 v. (1010 p.)
CT120.L43 <MRR Biog>
"... a compilation of the obituaries that have appeared in Facts on File
from ... late 1940 through 1978."
A chronology index (p. 657-760) arranges the names by date of death; the subject
index (p. 761-1010) includes names of professions and occupations.
The New York times obituaries index. New York, New York Times,
1970-80. 2 v.
CT213.N47 SSRR <MRR Biog> <BRS Biog>
Contents: v. 1. 1858-1968.--v. 2. 1969-1978.
Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey, and Kerry Lynne Meek. Women
and science, an annotated bibliography. New York, Garland
Pub., 1996. 556 p. (Garland reference library of social science,
v. 859)
Z7963.S3O35 1996 <SciRR>
Includes indexes by field, nationality, period, persons and institutions, type
of reference source, and themes.
Pelletier, Paul A. Prominent scientists; an index to collective
biographies. 3rd ed. New York, Neal-Schuman Publishers,
1994. xxxix, 353 p.
Q141.P398 1994 <SciRR Desk>
"Key to books indexed": p. xi-xxxv.
"List of scientists by field": p. 305-353.
Polski indeks biograficzny. Compiled by, Gabriele Baumgartner.
München, K.G. Saur, 1998. 4 v. (1467 p.) CT1230.P653 1998
Alternative title: Polnischer Biographischer Index; Polish biographical index.
May serve as an index to the microfiche collections, entitled Polski archiwum
biograficzne (94/2008 (C)) and Polski archiwum biograficzne. Suplement (98/9
(C)), held in MRR.
Contents: v. 1. Aaczek-Glixelli--v. 2. Glizenstein-Lasocki--v. 3. Lason´-Pusch--v.
4. Puschko-Zyzys.
(2004 ed. not in LC)
Scandinavian biographical index. Edited by Laureen Baillie. London,
New Jersey, K. G. Saur, 1994. 4 v. (2432 p.) CT1243.S25 1994 Scandinavia <EuRR> and
Electronic format
Alternative title: Skandinavischer biographischer Index.
Each entry in the index cites references to biographical sources and supplies
fiche and frame numbers to the accompanying microfiche set, entitled Scandinavian
biographical archive, (94/2000 (C)), which is held in MicRR. Texts of the
cited references are reproduced in the microfiche set.
Slocum, Robert B. Biographical dictionaries and related works, an international
bibliography. 2nd ed. Detroit, Gale Research Co., 1986. 2 v. (1319 p.)
Z530l.S55 1986 <SciRR>
Contents: v. 1. Universal biography; national or area biography.--v. 2. Biography
by vocation; author index, title index, subject index.
See particularly, in v. 2, sections on medicine and dentistry (p. 900-929), science
(p. 1006-1024), and technology and applied science (p. 1046-1059).
Smith, Roger. Biographies of scientists, an annotated bibliography.
Lanham, MD, Scarecrow Press, 1998. 291 p. (Magill bibliographies)
Z7404.S64 1998 <SciRR>
A first chapter on multidisciplinary sources is followed by eight chapters devoted
to various fields such as chemistry and life sciences; collected works and individual
biographies are included, as are series for young readers in two of the chapters.
A list of websites is given on p. 6-7, and there are indexes of names and subjects.
Stuckey, Ronald L. Index to biographical sketches and obituaries
in publications of the Ohio Academy of Science, 1900-1970. Ohio
journal of science, v. 70, July 1970: 246-255.
Q1.O3, v. 70
URL: https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/1811/5733/1/V70N04_246.pdf
(The freely available Adobe
Acrobat Reader is required to view and
print this resource.)
Biographical Archives and Indexes by K. G. Saur.
Biographical archives in microfiche format by K. G. Saur which
are in the collections of the the Library of Congress are listed
in this Tracer Bullet as note information with the printed index
title; otherwise archives with no printed index are listed below.
Each archive is a microfiche compilation of entries appearing in
a large number of biographical reference works, including many
highly specialized titles. The earliest reference work included
was originally published in 1646, and the most recent in the 1990's.
The biographies are arranged alphabetically with various types
of indexing to the content.
The electronic database World Biographical Information Service provides indexing
for the content of several of the biographical archives and more archives are
added yearly. (For more detailed information see the entry listing for World
Biographical Information Service in Abstracting and Indexing Services section
of this bibliography)./p>
Biographical Archives listed below are held in microfiche format
in the Microform Reading Room <MicRR> (with some exceptions):
Arabisch-Islamisches Biographisches Archiv (AIBA)/Arab-Islamic
Biographical Archive (1994-2002)
Microfiche 97/3 (D) <MicRR>
Archivio Biografico Italiano sino al 2001 (ABI IV)/Italienisches
Biographisches Archiv bis 2001/Italian Biographical Archive to
2001 (2002-2004)
Microfiche 2000/1 <MicRR>
Biographisches Archiv der Antike (BAA)/Biographical Archive of the Classical
World (1997-1999)
Microfiche 97/358 (P) <MicRR>
Biographisches Archiv der Sowjetunion (1917-1991) (BASU)/Biographical Archive
of the Soviet Union (1917-1991) (2000-2003)
Microfiche 2004/4 <<MicRR>
Ceský Biografický archív a Slovenský biografický archív
(CSBA)/Tschechisches und Slowakisches Biographisches Archiv/Czech and Slovakian
Biographical Archive (1992-1997)
Microfiche 97/16 (C) <MicRR>
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Contents: v. 1. Aarons-Baird--v. 2. Baker-Blatch--v. 3. Blatchford-Burnet--v.
4. Burnett-Clarke, Lewis--v. 5. Clarke, Mary-DaCosta--v. 6. Dafora-Dubuclet--v.
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The first chapter, "20th century pioneers: seven
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Cori, Florence Rena Sabin, Helen Brooke Taussig, Alice Hamilton, Edith Hinkley
Quimby, and Rachel Carson, and is followed by essays on Margaret Mead, Joanne
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phoneticians, physicians, and surgeons.
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Q141.L69 <EurRR>
Includes bibliographical references.
Mangin, Arthur. Les savants illustres de la France. Nouv. éd.,
entièrement refondue et augm. de plusieurs biographies nouvelles.
Avec un appendice comprenant l'histoire abrégée de
la science et des savants pendant les trois derniers siècles.
Ornée de seize portraits authentiques, dessinés par
M. Bocourt. Paris, P. Ducrocq, 1865. 524 p., [16] leaves of plates.
ports.
IQ127.F8M3
Mid-nineteenth-century scientists. Edited by John North. Oxford, New York, Pergamon
Press, 1969. 190 p., [7] leaves of plates. illus. (The Commonwealth and international
library. Liberal studies division. Science and society, v. 4)
Q141.M43 1969
Essays on Charles Babbage, Charles Darwin, James Prescott Joule, Hugh Powell,
James Smith and Andrew Ross, Joseph Lister, and W. H. Perkin.
Middleton, Edgar. Men who are shaping the future. London, J.
Gifford, 1939. 238 p., [8] leaves of plates. ports.
Q141.M45
Sir William Bragg, Sir Edward Mellanby, J. B. S. Haldane, Julian Huxley, Sir
Joseph Barcroft, F. L. Hopwood, F. G. Banting, Sir James Jeans, Sir John Orr,
Sir Frank Smith, Sir Arthur Keith, Lord Rayleigh, Sir F. G. Hopkins, Sir George
Simpson, John Logie Baird, A. M. Low, and Edwin John Butler. Also notes the
essential contributions of the "unknown soldiers of science."
National scientists of the Philippines, 1978-1988. Pasig
City, Philippines, Dept. of Science and Technology, National Academy
of Science and Technology, Philippines, published and exclusively
distributed by Anvil Pub., 2000. 298 p. illus.
Includes bibliographical references.
Q141.N25 2000
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna. Österreichische
Naturforscher und Techniker. Wien, Im Verlag der Gesellschaft für
Natur und Technik, 1951. 216 p. illus., ports.
Bibliography: p. 203-209.
Q141.A4
In two parts: "Naturforscher und Forschungsreisende" and "Techniker,
Erfinder, Industrielle." See also entry under Knoll, Fritz, above.
Outside the square: inspirational science and tales of extraordinary
Australians. Foreword by Hugh Morgan; introd. by Robyn Williams. Parkville, Vic., Clunies
Ross Press, 1993. 76 p. illus. (some col.), ports. (some col.)
Q141.O84 1993
"Winners of the Clunies Ross National Science & Technology Award."
Paul Trainor, Graeme Clark, Ewen Tyler, Mike Penny, Ralph Sarich, Donald Metcalf,
Ern Dawes, John Gladstones, Bob Becher, Susan Serjeantson, Graeme Jameson, and
Michael Rickard.
Pakistan Association of Scientists and Scientific Professions.
Scientists and technologists of Pakistan, a directory. Karachi,
1966. 367 p.
Q145.P25
Arrangement is by field of specialization, with a name index.
Parry, Albert. The Russian scientist. New York, Macmillan, 1973.
196 p. illus., map,
Bibliography: p. 183-186.
Q141.P37 <SciRR>
Includes chapters on Lomonosov, Lobachevskii, Mendeleev, Mechnikov, Pavlov, TSiolkovskii, and Kapitsa, and a section on the Soviet academy of sciences.
Philippine men of science. A bio-bibliographical handbook
of men and women in the field of science and technology. v. 4-5.
Bicutan, Taguig, Metro Manila, Scientific Clearinghouse and Documentation
Services Division, Science Promotion Institute, National Science
and Technology Authority, 1983-85. 2 v.
Q141.P45 1983
Each volume provides information about 50 individuals.
Portraits in science. Compiled and introduced by Ann Moyal. Canberra,
National Library of Australia, 1994. 203 p. ports.
Bibliography: p. 200-203.
Q141.P667 1994
Interviews with 12 Australian scientists.
Profiles of African scientists. 2nd ed., rev. and expanded. Nairobi,
African Academy of Sciences, 1991. 661 p. ports.
Q141.P76 1991 <SciRR>
Arrangement is by country, with name and subject indexes.
Robinson, Norman H. The Royal Society catalogue of portraits.
With biographical notes by Eric G. Forbes. London, Royal Society,
1980. 343 p. ports. (some col.)
N7635.R63 1980 <SciRR>
Portraits of 176 individuals, nearly all of them fellows or foreign members
Royal Society of London. Biographical memoirs of fellows of the Royal Society. v.
1+ 1955+ London, The Society. ports.
Includes bibliographical references.
Q41.L8476
Continues the Society's Obituary notices of fellows,
v. 1-9, 1932-5 (Q41.L8475).
LC set of the Biographical memoirs is incomplete.
Russisches biographisches Archiv [microform]. Editor, Axel
Frey. München, K. G. Saur Verlag, 1997+ . 539 microfiche.
Microfiche 98/4 (C) <MicRR> and Electronic format
Alternative title: Russian biographical archive.
“Consists of approximately 160,000 bibliographical entries for 75,000 individuals from the earliest times to the end of the dynasty of the Romanovs in 1917. Compiled
from more than 150 source works published between 1827 and 1995.
Schmidt, Marian. Hommes de science: 28 portraits. Paris, Hermann,
1990. 250 p. ports.
A short biographical sketch appears at the end of each interview.
Q141.S292 1990
Scientists face to face. Edited by István Kardos. Translated
by Inez Kemenes and others. Budapest, Corvina Kiadó, 1978.
400 p. ports.
Q141.S3714
Based on television interviews with 18 Hungarian scientists, some of whom made
their careers in other countries.
Small portraits are reproduced on the inside front and back covers of the volume.
Scientists in the Philippines. Manila, National Science Development
Board, 1975-78. 2 v.
Includes bibliographical references.
Q141.S295 1975
Each volume contains chapters on 10 scientists, all of them
deceased.
Singh, Jagjit. Some eminent Indian scientists. Delhi, Publications
Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India,
1966. 131 p., [16] p. of plates. illus., ports.
Q141.S55
H. J. Bhabha, J. C. Bose, R. C. Bose, S. N. Bose, S. Chandrasekhar, J. B. S.
Haldane, D. S. Kothari, K. S. Krishnan, P. C. Mahalanobis, C. V. Raman, S. Ramanujan,
and M. N. Saha.
Some nineteenth century British scientists. Edited by
R. Harré.
Oxford, New York, Pergamon Press, 1969. 259 p. illus., map port.(The
Commonwealth and international library. Liberal studies division.
Science and
society, v. 5)
Q141.S567 1969
Essays on Sir Charles Wyville Thomson and Sir James Murray,
Arthur Cayley, Sir Francis Galton, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Sir Norman
Lockyer,
Sidney
Gilchrist
Thomas,
and Sir William
Ramsay.
Tibenskéy, Ján. Priekopníci vedy a techniky
na Slovensku. Bratislava,
Obzor, 1986-1999. 3v. illus., facsims., maps, ports.
Bibliography: v. 1, p. 379-414; v. 2, p. 909-966.
Q141.T53 1986
Turkevich, John. Soviet men of science; academicians and
corresponding members of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Princeton, NJ,
D. Van Nostrand Co., 1963. 441 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
Q141.T83 <SciRR>
Who's who in science and technology in Nigeria. 2nd ed. Edited by Adetunji
Akinyotu and Adeboye Olatunji. Akure, Federal University of Technology,
1994. xxix, 655 p.
IQ141.W578 1994
Who's who in Soviet science and technology. Compiled by Ina Telberg.
2nd ed., rev. and enl. by Antonia Dmitriev and V. G. Telberg. New York, Telberg Book Co., 1964. 301 leave.
Q127.R9W5 1964 <SciRR>
Wiemers, Gerald, and Eberhard Fischer. Die Mitglieder
von 1846 bis 1996: Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften
zu Leipzig. Berlin, Akademie Verlag, 1996. 227 p. ports.
Q49.W52 1996
Errata slip with one portrait inserted.
Portraits are accompanied by minimal biographical information--professional field
and places and dates of birth and death.
Zhong, Shizu. Ancient China's scientists. Hong Kong, Commercial
Press, 1984. 111 p. illus. Q127.C5C55936 1984
Contents: Lu Ban.-- Bian Que.--Cai Lun.--Zhang Heng.--Hua Tuo.--Zu Chongzhi.--Jia
Sixie.--Bi Sheng.--Shen Kuo.--Li Shizhen.--Xu Xiake.
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Abstracting and indexing services that index relevant
journal articles and other literature of a biographical nature
are listed below. Please consult a reference librarian for the
location and formation of abstracting and indexing services in
the Science Reading Room.
America, History and Life (1964- )
Z1236.A48, Z1236.A484,
Z1236.A485, Z1236.A486, Z1236.A488 and Z1236.A487 <MRR Alc> and Electronic Format
Applied Science & Technology Index (1913- )
Z7913.I7 <SciRR> and Electronic Format
Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts (1969- )
Z5153.A862 <SciRR>
Bibliography and Index of Geology (1933- )
Z6031.G4 <SciRR> and Electronic Format
Bibliography of Agriculture (1942- )
Z5073.U572 <SciRR> and Electronic Format
Biography and Genealogy Master Index (1975- )
Z5305.U5B57 <MRR Biog> <BRS Biog> and Electronic format
Biography Index (1946- )
Z5301.B5 <MRR Biog> <BRS Biog> and
Electronic format
Biological Abstracts (1926- )
QH301.B37 <SciRR> and Electronic Format
Chemical Abstracts (1907- )
QD1.A51 <SciRR>
Current Biography (1940- )
CT100.C8 <BRS> and Electronic Format
Current Work in the History of Medicine
(1954- ) R131.A1C8
Engineering Index (1884- )
Z5851.E62 <SciRR> and Electronic Format
Historical Abstracts (1955- )
D299.H5, D299.H512, and D299.H513 <MRR> and Electronic Format
Mathematical Reviews (1940- )
QA1.M76 <SciRR> and Electronic Format
New York Times Index (1913- )
AI21.N44 and AI21.N45 <MRR>
Physics Abstracts (1898- )
Q1.S3 <SciRR> and QC1.P46 <SciRR> and Electronic Format
Psychological Abstracts (1927- )
BF1.P65 and Electronic Format
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature (1900- )
AI3.R48 <BRS> and Electronic Format
The electronic resources listed below may only be available at a large
public or academic library. The Library of Congress has subscriptions
to these resources which are available to on-site researchers at the
Library of Congress. Some titles may be available exclusively in electronic
format, while others have components which are represented in book or
microfiche formats. Consult a reference librarian for the location and
format of abstracting and indexing services in the Science Reading Room.
African American Biographical Database
Electronic Format
Includes Chadwyck-Healey's Black Biographical Dictionaries 1790-1950, obituary
files, slave narrative collections, photographs, illustrations, and other
sources
American National Biography
CT213.A68 1999 <MRR Biog> and Electronic format
Portraits of more than 17,4000 men and women from all areas and walks of life
whose lives have shaped the nation.
Biography Resource Center
Electronic format
Database of biographical information on more than 150,000 individuals from
all parts of the world. The information is taken from standard biographical
resources, many of which are also available in print format in the Library.
Chambers Reference Online
CT103.C4 <MRR Biog> and Electronic
format
Contains Chambers Biographical Dictionary (1997 ed. with amendments)
German Biography
Electronic format
Elektronische Allgemeine deutsche Biographie (E-ADB and E-NDB) is a database
for German biographies.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
DA28.O95 2004 <MRR Biog> and Electronic format
An illustrated collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of the men
and women who shaped Britain's past
Proquest Historical Newspapers
Electronic format
World Biographical Information System
Electronic format
Current component indexes and archives include the following, with more added
yearly: American Biographical Archive (ABA Series I and II); Biographical
Archive (ABEP Series I and II); Biographical Archive of the Benelux Countries/Archives
biographiques des pays du Benelux (BAB I); British Biographical Archive (BBA
Series I and II); Archives biographiques françaises /French Biographical
Archive (ABF Series I and II); Deutsches biographisches Archiv /German Biographical
Archive (DBA Series I and II); Archivio biografico italiano/Italian Biographical
Archive (ABI Series I and II); Russisches biographisches Archiv/Russian Biographical
Archive (RBA); Scandinavian Biographical Archive (SBA I); and Archivo biográfico
de España, Portugal e Iberoamérica/Spanish, Portuguese and
Latin-American Archive (ABEP Series I and II).
Xreferplus: Biography
Electronic format
Component sources include Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage,
Debrett's People of Today, Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography, Penguin
Biographical
Dictionary of Women, Who's Who 2003, Who's Who in Ancient Egypt, Who's Who
in Christianity, Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History, and Who's Who in The
Roman World.
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Journals that often contain biographical articles on scientists,
or bibliographic listings of relevant books and articles, include:
Agricultural
History
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S1.A16 |
American Heritage of Invention & Technology
|
T1.A455 |
| American
Psychologist |
BF1.A55 |
| American Scientist |
LJ85.S502 |
| British Journal for the
History of Science |
Q125.B77 |
| Bulletin of the History of Medicine |
R11.B93 |
| Historia
Mathematica |
QA21.H54 |
| Historical Studies in the
Physical and Biological Sciences |
QC7.H69 |
| History of Science |
Q125.H63 |
| History of Technology |
T14.7.H57 |
| Industrial Archaeology |
T37.I5 |
| Isis |
Q1.I7 |
| Journal of Chemical Education |
QD1.J93 |
| Journal of the History of Ideas |
B1.J75 |
| Journal of the History
of Medicine and Allied Sciences |
R131.A1J6 |
| Osiris |
Q1.O7 |
| Proceedings of the American
Philosophical Society |
Q11.P5 |
| Science |
Q1.S35 |
| Scientific American |
T1.S5 |
| Scientific Monthly |
Q1.S817 |
| Studies in History and
Philosophy of Science |
Q125.S94 |
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Most of the resources listed below provide bibliographies or list links
to related sites from their web sites. It is also possible to find sites
using a search engine, such as Alta Vista, Google, or Yahoo to locate additional
sites. Suggested terms for searching include: Internet Resources and Biographical
Sources, Scientists and Biographical Sources, Scientists and Biography and
Bibliography, or the names of individual subject specialties and the term
biography, or the names of individual scientists.
Biographies PolySearch Engine
URL: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~jacso/extra/egyeb/poly-bio.htm
Biography resources: finding information on the famous, infamous, and
obscure. C&RL News, January 2002, Vol. 63, no. 1.
URL: http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2002/January/biographyresources.htm
BUBL Link Catalogue of Internet Resources: Scientists
URL: http://bubl.ac.uk/link/s/scientists.htm
Chemical Achievers
QD21.B67 1997 and Electronic format
URL: http://www.chemheritage.org/classroom/chemach/index.html
Dictionary of Australian Biography
URL: http://gutenberg.net.au/dictbiog/00-dict-biogIndex.html
Contains 1030 biographies of Australians, or people closely connected to Australia,
who died before the end of 1942. Components include Australian Medical
Pioneers Index (AMPI), Bright Sparcs, and OzLife: Australian Biography Index.
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
F1005.D49 <MRR Biog> and Electronic
format
URL: http://www.biographi.ca/EN/index.html
The electronic database provides access to the 14 volumes of Dictionary
of Canadian Biography already in print and to a selection of Canadian biographies
from unprinted volumes.
Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
CT2882.D53, CT2882.D53217 <MRR Biog> and Electronic format
URL: http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/
Contains over 3,000 biographies of deceased New Zealanders who have 'made their
mark' on the country. The electronic database includes the collected biographies
originally published in the printed Dictionary of New Zealand Biography (CT2882.D53)
series between 1990 and 2000, and in the parallel Maori-language series, Nga
Tangata Taumata Rau (CT2882.D53217). Updated occasionally.
Distinguished Women of Past and Present
URL: http://www.DistinguishedWomen.com
Links to biographies of women in all fields of endeavor.
Eric Weisstein’s World of Science
URL: http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/
Contains searchable full-text encyclopedias of astronomy, chemistry, mathematics,
scientific biography, and physics.
The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
URL: https://webfiles.uci.edu/mcbrown/display/faces.html
Photographs, short biographies, and bibliographical sources on African American
scientists.
Galileo Project: Catalog of the Scientific Community in the 16th and
17th Centuries
URL: http://galileo.rice.edu/lib/catalog.html
More than 600 biographies of members of the scientific community during the
16th and 17th centuries with 20 searchable fields.
Internet Public Library: Biographies
URL: http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/ref15.00.00/
Library of Congress, Science Reference. Selected Internet Resources:
Biography
URL: http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/selected-internet/biography.html
MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive: Indexes of Biographies of
Mathematicians
URL: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk:80/~history/BiogIndex.html
Short biographies, some with photographs and references.
NASA Astronaut Biographies
URL: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/
Includes photographs and personal data. Links to biographies of astronaut candidates,
cosmonauts, and payload specialists.
New York Public Library: Research Guides: Biographical Sources: Selected
Internet Sites
URL: http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/grd/resguides/biography/biography.cfm
Nobel Prize Internet Archive
URL: http://almaz.com/
Biographies of Nobel Prize winners, with links to other sites containing information.
Obituary Daily Times
URL: http://www.rootsweb.com/~obituary/index.html
An index of published obituaries from across the world.
SACNAS Biography Project
URL: http://www2.sacnas.org/biography/
Photographs, biographies, and some video of Chicano/Latino and Native American
scientists, compiled by the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native
Americans in Science.
School Science Directory: Science Biography Resources
URL: http://www.juliantrubin.com/schooldirectory/sciencebiography.html
Smithsonian Institution: Selected Bibliography on African American
Inventors
URL: http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/afinvent.htm
WWW Virtual Library for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine:
Biographical Sources
URL: http://echo.gmu.edu/center.php
Links to a variety of biographical sources covering virtually all scientific
disciplines.
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