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AGRICULTURE, VETERINARY MEDICINE, CONSERVATION
Agricultural & veterinary sciences international who's who.
5TH ed. Harlow, Essex, UK, Longman Group; New York, Stockton Press, 1994. 1157p. Axelrod, Alan, and Charles Phillips. The environmentalists: a biographical dictionary from the 17th century to the present. New York, Facts on File, 1993. xiv, 258 p. illus., ports. Becher, Anne, and others. American environmental leaders: from colonial
times to the present. Santa Barbara, CA, ABC-CLIO, 2000. 2 v. (xviii, 921
p.) illus. Biographical dictionary of American and Canadian naturalists
and environmentalists. Edited by Keir B. Sterling and others.
Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1997. xix, 937 p. Braun, Elisabeth. Portraits in conservation, Eastern and
Southern Africa. Golden, CO, North American Press, 1995. xxxiii, 268 p.
illus., maps, ports. Breton, Mary Joy. Women pioneers for the environment. Boston,
Northeastern University Press, 1998. xiv, 322 p. illus. Drum, Sue, and H. Ellen Whiteley. Women in veterinary medicine:
profiles of success. Ames, Iowa State University Press, 1991.
xv, 270 p. ports. Environmental activists. Edited by John Mongillo and Bibi Booth. Westport,
CT, Greenwood Press, 2001. 356 p. illus. Holmes, Madelyn. American women conservationists: twelve profiles.
Jefferson, NC, McFarland, 2004. 202 p. illus. Marczakiewicz, August, and Jan Stepinski. Slownik biograficzny
dzialaczy kólek rolniczych. Warszawa, Krajowy Zwiazek Rolników,
Kólek i Organizacji Rolniczych, Komisja Historyczna, 1992.
157 p. ports. Muhm, Don, and Virginia Wadsley. Iowans who made a difference:
150 years of agricultural progress. West Des Moines, Iowa Farm
Bureau Federation, 1996. xvi, 367 p. illus., ports. Our history of women in veterinary medicine: gumption, grace, grit,
and good humor. By the Association for Women Veterinarians; compiled and edited
by Phyllis Hickney Larsen. Littleton, CO, The Association, 1997. 115 p. illus. The Prairie practitioners: 20th century South Dakota veterinarians. Compiled and edited by Thomas B. Ludgate and Janice Ludgate Kitzler.
Freeman, SD, Pine Hill Press, 1996. 288 p. illus. Scheuering, Rachel White. Shapers of the great debate on
conservation: a biographical dictionary. Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 2004.
xxviii, 312 p. (Shapers of the great American debates) Stalheim, Ole H. V. Veterinary conversations with mid-twentieth
century leaders. Ames, Iowa State University Press, 1996. xxvi,
302 p. illus., ports. Who's who of the environment. In The Environment encyclopedia
and directory. 4th ed. London, Europa Publications Limited, 2005.
p. 499-599. World who is who and does what in environment & conservation. Edited
by Nicholas Polunin; compiled by Lynn M. Curme. New York, St. Martin's Press;
Geneva, Foundation for Environmental Conservation, 1997. 592 p. ASTRONOMY Bhathal, R. S. Australian astronomers: achievements at the frontiers
of astronomy. Canberra, National Library of Australia, 1996. 236 p. illus.,
ports. Bònoli, Fabrizio, and Daniela Piliarvu. I lettori
di astronomia presso lo studio di Bologna dal XII al XX secolo. Bologna,
CLUEB, 2001. 282 p. illus. (Musei e archivi dello Studio bolognese,
7) Brüggenthies, Wilhelm, and Wolfgang R. Dick. Biographischer
Index der Astronomie. Frankfurt am Main, H. Deutsch, 2005. 481
p. (Acta historica astronomiae, v. 26) Cocks, Elijah E., and Josiah C. Cocks. Who's who on the moon: a biographical
dictionary of lunar nomenclature. Greensboro, NC, Tudor Publishers, 1995. 600
p. 8 p. of plates. illus. DeVorkin, David H. Biographical, autobiographical and collected
works. In his The history of modern astronomy and astrophysics:
a selected, annotated bibliography. New York, Garland Pub., 1982.
p. 347-395. illus. (Bibliographies of the history of science and
technology, v. 1) (Garland reference library of the humanities,
v. 304) Krishnamurthi, K. R. Indian astronomers. General editor, N.
Mahalingam. Madras, International Society for the Investigation
of Ancient Civilizations, 1991. 213 p. Levy, David H., and Wendee Wallach-Levy. Cosmic discoveries:
the wonders of astronomy. Amherst, NY, Prometheus Books, 2001.
232 p. illus. (some col.) Masevich, Alla G., and Aleksandra K. Terent'eva. Zhenshchiny
astronomy. In Na rubezhakh poznaniia? Vselennoi. Istoriko-astronomicheskie
issledovaniia. vyp. 23, 1991. Otv. redaktor, A. A. Gurshtein.
Moskva, "Nauka," 1992. p. 90-111. ports. McCutcheon, Scott, and Bobbi McCutcheon. Space and astronomy:
the people behind the science. Chelsea House, New York, 2006.
xvi, 192 p. illus. (Pioneers in science) Mourão, Ronaldo Rogério de Freitas. Astronomia
na época dos descobrimentos: a importância dos árabes
e dos judeus nas descobertas. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Lacerda
Editores, 2000. 486 p. illus. Schmidt, Hans. Astronomen der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität
Bonn: ihr Leben und Werk, 1819-1966. Bonn, Bouvier, 1990. 183
p. illus., ports. (Academica Bonnensia, Bd. 9) Turner, Gerard L'Estrange. Renaissance astrolabes and their
makers. Aldershot, Hampshire, UK, Burlington, VT, Ashgate/Variorum,
2003. 1 v. (various pagings) illus. (Variorum collected studies
series, 766) Winterburn, Emily. The astronomers Royal. Greenwich, London, National Maritime
Museum, Royal Observatory Greenwich, 2003. 64 p. illus. (some col.) BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES American nature writers. John Elder, editor. New York, Charles Scribner's
Sons, 1996. 2 v. (xxiii, 1210 p.) illus., ports. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography. Membership
handbook and directory, 2000-2001. Washington, American Society of Limnology
and Oceanography, 2001. 1 v. Beidleman, Richard G. California's frontier naturalists. Berkeley,
University of California Press, 2006. xv, 484 p. illus., maps. Bonta, Marcia. Women in the field: America's pioneering
women naturalists. College Station, Texas A & M University Press,
1991. xix, 299 p. illus., ports. Boreiko, V. IE. Slovar' deiatelei okhrany prirody.
Izd. 2-e, dop. Kiev, Kievskii ekologokul'turnyi tsentr, TSentr
Okhrany
Dikoi prirody, 2001. 521 p. ports. (Seriia Istoriia okhrany
prirody, vyp. 24) Bridson, Gavin D. R. Biographies of naturalists. In his The
history of natural history, an annotated bibliography. New York,
Garland Pub., 1994. p. 20-154. (Garland reference library of the
humanities, v. 991) (Bibliographies on the history of science
and technology, v. 24) Campbell-Culver, Maggie. The origin of plants: the people
and plants that have shaped Britain's garden history since the
year
1000. London, Headline, 2001. 260 p. col. illus. Carty, Winthrop P., and Elizabeth Lee. The rhino man and
other uncommon environmentalists. Washington, Seven Locks Press, 1992.
177 p. illus., ports. Catalogue of portraits of naturalists, mostly botanists,
in the collections of the Hunt Institute, the Linnean Society
of
London, and the Conservatoire et jardin botaniques de la ville
de Genève. Compiled by Michael T. Stieber, and others.
Pittsburgh, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie
Mellon University, 1987+. 3 v. Charton, Barbara. A to Z of marine scientists. New York, Facts
on File, 2003. 230 p. illus., ports. (Notable scientists) (Facts
on File science library) Colmeiro, Miguel. La botánica y los botánicos
de la península hispano-lusitana: estudios bibliográficos
y biográficos. Madrid, Ollero & Ramos, 2000. 216 p.
(Colección Reprint) Cullen, Katherine E. Marine science: the people behind the
science.
New York, Chelsea House, 2006. xviii, 174 p. illus., maps. (Pioneers
in science) Dayrat, Benoît. Les botanistes et la flore de France:
trois siècles de découvertes. Paris, Publications
scientifiques du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle,
2003. 690 p. illus. (some col.) (Archives (Muséum national
d’histoire naturelle (France))) Dalil ulama al-bihar wa-marakiz al-biah al-bariyah bi-al-dwal
al-arabiyah = Directory of marine scientists and marine environmental
centres in the Arab states = Répertoire des océanographes
et des centres d'étude du milieu marin dans les etats arabes. Selim
Morcos and Mahmoud Kh. El-Sayed, editors. Nairobi, Kenya, Oceans
and Coastal Areas Programme Activity Centre, United Nations
Environment Programme, 1990. 213 p. (Regional seas. Directories
and bibliographies, no. 34) Desmond, Ray. Dictionary of British and Irish botanists
and horticulturists: including plant collectors, flower painters
and
garden designers. Rev. and completely updated ed. London, Taylor & Francis
and the Natural History Museum, 1994. xl, 825 p. Directory of marine and freshwater scientists in Canada. Prepared
by Secretariat, Canadian Committee on Oceanography. = Répertoire
des experts des sciences de la mer et des eaux douces au Canada. Preparé par le Sécretariat, Comité canadien
d'océanographie. Ottawa, Fisheries and Oceans, Scientific
Information and Publications Branch = Pêches et océans,
Direction de l'information et des publications scientifiques,
1989. 408 p. Evans, Howard Ensign. Pioneer naturalists: the discovery
and naming of North American plants and animals. New York, H. Holt,
1993. 294 p. illus. Fishman, Gail. Journeys through paradise: pioneering naturalists
in the Southeast. Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 2000.
xv, 306 p. illus., maps. Graham, Kevin. Contemporary environmentalists. New York, Facts on File,
1996. 178 p. illus., ports. (Global profiles) Hoppe, Jürgen. Grandes exploradores en tierras de la Española. Santo Domingo, República Dominicana, Grupo León Jimenez, 2001.
122 p. illus. (some col.) Isely, Duane. One hundred and one botanists. Ames, Iowa State University
Press, 1994. 351 p. ports. Keene, Ann T. Earthkeepers: observers and protectors of nature. New York,
Oxford University Press, 1994. 222 p. illus. (some col.), maps, ports. (some
col.) (Oxford profiles) Lerner, Steve. Eco-pioneers: practical visionaries solving today's
environmental problems. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 1997. 462 p. illus., plan, ports. Life sciences before the twentieth century: biographical portraits. Everett
Mendelsohn, editor. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002. xiv, 211 p.
illus. (Scribner science reference series, v. 3) Life sciences in the twentieth century: biographical portraits. Everett
Mendelsohn, editor, Brian S. Baigrie, consulting editor. New York, Charles
Scribner's Sons, 2001. 207 p. illus. (Scribner science reference series,
v. 2) Lucas, Eileen. Naturalists, conservationists, and environmentalists. New
York, Facts on File, 1994. 150 p. illus., ports. (American profiles) Martínez Tejero, Vicente. Naturalistas aragoneses: piedras, fósiles,
plantas, insectos, peces, pájaros, ... Zaragoza, Ibercaja, 2005. 206
p. illus. (Biblioteca aragonesa de cultura, 35) (Publicación...de la
Institución "Fernando el Católico," no. 2537) Maslow, Jonathan Evan. Footsteps in the jungle: adventures in the scientific
exploration of the American tropics. Chicago, Ivan R. Dee, 1996. 308 p. illus.,
maps, ports. McKelvey, Susan Delano. Botanical exploration of the trans-Mississippi
west, 1790-1850. Corvallis, Oregon State University Press, 1991. xl, 1144
p. col. maps. (Northwest reprints) Mearns, Barbara, and Richard Mearns. Audubon to Xántus: the lives
of those commemorated in North American bird names. London, San Diego, Academic
Press, 1992. xix, 588 p. illus., maps, ports. Musgrave, Toby, Chris Gardner, and Will Musgrave. The plant hunters:
two hundred years of adventure and discovery around the world. London, Ward Lock;
New York, distributed in the U. S. by Sterling Pub. Co., 1998. The Naturalists' directory and almanac, international. Baltimore, World
Natural History Publications, 1980+ Nilsson, Karen. A wild flower by any other name: sketches of pioneer
naturalists who named our western plants. Yosemite National Park, CA, Yosemite Association,
1994. 152 p. illus., ports. Notable women in the life sciences: a biographical dictionary. Edited by
Benjamin F. Shearer and Barbara S. Shearer. Westport, CT, Greenwood Press,
1996. 440 p. ports. Nowak, Eugeniusz. Wissenschaftler in turbulenten Zeiten: Erinnerungen
an Ornithologen, Naturschützer und andere Naturkundler. Schwerin, Stock & Stein,
2005. 432 p. illus. O'Connor, W. J. British physiologists, 1885-1914: a biographical dictionary. Manchester, Eng., New York, Manchester University Press; New York, distributed
exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1991. xvii, 582 p. Paiva, Melquíades Pinto. Os naturalistas e o Ceará. Fortaleza,
CE, Brasil, Instituto do Ceará, 2002. 354 p. illus. (some col.), map. Persaud, T. V. N. A history of anatomy: the post-Vesalian era. Springfield,
IL, Charles C Thomas, 1997. 357 p. illus., facsims., ports. The Renaissance and the scientific revolution: biographical portraits. Brian S. Baigrie, editor. New York, Charles Scribner, 2001. 210 p. illus.
(Scribner science reference series, v. 1) Short, P. S. In pursuit of plants: experiences of nineteenth & early
twentieth century plant collectors. Portland, OR, Timber Press, 2004. xvi,
351 p. col. illus. Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating women, cultivating science: Flora's daughters
and botany in England, 1760 to 1860. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1996. 301 p. illus., facsims., ports. Tiehm, Arnold. Nevada vascular plant types and their collectors. Bronx,
New York Botanical Garden, 1996. 104 p. illus. (Memoirs of the New York Botanical
Garden, v. 77) Trupp, Philip Z. Sea of dreamers: travels with famous ocean explorers. Golden, CO, Fulcrum Pub., 1998. 214 p. illus. U.S. ocean scientists & engineers ... directory. Washington,
American Geophysical Union, 1987. 185 p. Vickery, Jim Dale. Wilderness visionaries: Leopold, Thoreau, Muir,
Olson, Murie, Service, Marshall, Rutstrum. Minocqua, WI, NorthWord Press, 1994.
263 p. ports. Voous, K. H. In de ban van vogels: geschiedenis van de beoefening van
de ornithologie in Nederland in de twintigste eeuw. Tevens ornithologisch
biographisch
woordenboek. Utrecht, Scheffers, 1995. 605 p. illus., ports. Wasserman, Elga. The door in the dream: conversations with eminent
women in science. Washington, Joseph Henry Press, 2000. xiv, 254 p. illus. Women in the biological sciences: a biobibliographic sourcebook. Edited
by Louise S. Grinstein, Carol A. Biermann, and Rose K. Rose. Westport, CT,
Greenwood Press, 1997. xxii, 609 p. Yount, Lisa. A to Z of biologists. New York, Facts on File, 2003. 390 p.
illus. (Notable scientists) CHEMISTRY American chemists and chemical engineers. Wyndham D. Miles, editor. Washington,
American Chemical Society, 1976 - < 1994 > 2 v. Beyer, Lothar, and Rainer Behrends. De artes chemiae: Chemiker und
Chemie an der Alma mater Lipsiensis: Kunstschätze, Buchbestände und Archivdokumente
der Universität Leipzig und anderer Sammlungen. Leipzig, Passage-Verlag,
2003. 223 p. illus. (some col.) Bibliography on the history of chemistry and chemical technology, 17th
to the 19th century. Edited by Valentin Wehefritz, with the assistance of
Zoltán Kováts. München, New Providence, K. G. Saur, 1994.
3 v. (1749 p.) Bowden, Mary Ellen. Chemical achievers: the human face of the chemical
sciences. Philadelphia, Chemical Heritage Foundation, 1997. 180 p. illus., facsims.,
ports. Chemistry, 1991-1995. Editor, Bo G. Malmström. Singapore, River Edge,
NJ, World Scientific, 1997. 296 p. illus. (some col.) (Nobel lectures, including
presentation speeches and laureates’ biographies) Hargittai, István. Candid science III: more conversations with
famous chemists. Edited by Magdolna Hargittai. London, Imperial College Press; River
Edge, NJ, distributed by World Scientific Pub. Co., 2003. 507 p. illus. Macmillan encyclopedia of chemistry. Joseph J. Lagowski, editor in chief.
New York, Macmillan Reference USA, 1997. 4 v. (lxxi, 1696 p.) illus. Nobel laureates in chemistry, 1901-1992. Laylin K. James, editor. Washington,
American Chemical Society and the Chemical Heritage Foundation, 1993. xvii,
798 p. ports. (History of modern chemical sciences) The Nobel Prize winners: chemistry. Edited by Frank N. Magill. Pasadena,
CA, Salem Press, 1990. 3 v. (xiv, 1246, XVI p.) ports. Oakes, Elizabeth H. A to Z of chemists. New York, Facts on File, 2002.
276 p. illus. (Notable scientists) (Facts on File science library) Pioneers in polymer science. Edited by Raymond B. Seymour. Dordrecht, Boston,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989. 272 p. (Chemists and chemistry) Pötsch, Winfried R., Annelore Fischer, and Wolfgang Müller. Lexikon
bedeutender Chemiker. Leipzig, Bibliographisches Institut, 1988. 469 p. Siemion, Ignacy Z. O chemikach polskich doby zaborów: szkice biograficzne. Wroclaw, Wydawn. Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego, 1995. 219 p. illus., facsims.,
ports. (Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis, no. 1696) Successful women in chemistry: corporate America's contribution to
science. Amber S. Hinkle, editor, Jody A. Kocsis, editor; sponsored by the ACS Women
Chemists Committee. Washington, American Chemical Society, distributed by
Oxford University Press, 2005. xiv, 202 p. illus., ports. (ACS symposium
series, 907) Szabadváry, Ferenc, and others. A magyar vegyészet arcképcsarnoka. Várpalota, Magyar Vegyészeti Múzeum, 1970-1992. 3 v.
illus. (v. 2-3, Magyar Vegyészeti Múzeum kiadványai,
22-23) Tiggelen, Brigitte van. Chimie et chimistes de Belgique. Bruxelles, Labor,
2004. 176, xvi p. illus. Volkov, V. A., E. V. Vonskii, and G. I. Kuznetsova. Vydaiushchiesia
khimiki mira: biograficheskii spravochnik. Moskva, "Vysshaia
shkola," 1991.
655 p. illus. Women in chemistry and physics: a biobibliographic sourcebook. Edited by
Louise S. Grinstein, Rose K. Rose, and Miriam H. Rafailovich. Westport, CT,
Greenwood Press, 1993. xix, 721 p. World directory of crystallographers and of other scientists employing
crystallographic methods. 9th ed. General editor, T. Epelboin. Dordrecht,
Boston, Published for the International Union of Crystallography by Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 1995. 296 p. GEOLOGY, MINERALOGY, PALEONTOLOGY Aaseng, Nathan. American dinosaur hunters. Springfield, NJ, Enslow Publishers,
1996. 112 p. illus., ports. (Collective biographies) American Institute of Professional Geologists. A history of AIPG, 1963-2003. Westminster, CO, American Institute of Professional Geologists, 2004. 390
p. illus. Butorina, L. A. Geologi--issledovateli Il'men. Ekaterinburg, Rossiiskaia
akademiia nauk, Ural'skoe otdelenie, Il'menskii gos. zapovednik, 2004. 129
p. illus., ports. Carruthers, Margaret W., and Susan Clinton. Pioneers of geology: discovering
Earth's secrets. New York, F. Watts, 2001. 143 p. illus., maps. (Lives in
science) Clinton, Susan. Reading between the bones: the pioneers of dinosaur
paleontology. New York, F. Watts, 1997. Gates, Alexander E. A to Z of earth scientists. New York, Facts on File,
2002. xv, 336 p. illus. (Notable scientists) Geography and exploration: biographical portraits. Barry M. Gough, editor.
New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002. xx, 224 p. illus., maps. (The Scribner
science reference series, v. 4) Geologi Samarskoi oblasti. Samara, "Pechatnyi dvor KP", 2000.
658 p. illus. Geological Society of Washington. Biographies of founders and other members.
In its Centennial history of the Geological Society of Washington, 1893-1993. Edited by Eugene C. Robertson. Washington, Geological Society of Washington,
1993. p. 35-116. ports. Proud heritage: people and progress in early Canadian geoscience. Edited
by R. W. Macqueen. St. John's, NL, Geological Association of Canada, 2004.
xxxiv, 217 p. illus. (Geoscience Canada reprint series, 8) Rapoport, M. S., V. IA. Komarskii, and V. V. Filatov. Tvortsy ural'skoi
geologii. Ekaterinburg, Kom-t prirodnykh resursov po Sverdlovskoi oblasti,
2000. 219 p. illus. Remizovskii, V. I. Neft' Sakhalina v sud'bakh: sbornik dokumental'nykh
biograficheskikh ocherkov. Khabarovsk, Dal'nevostochnaia narodnaia akademiia
nauk, Priamurskaia geograficheskoe ob-vo, 2001. v. <1 > illus. (Seriia
istoriia neftianogo Sakhalina, no. 5) Remizovskii, V. I. Okhintsy 20-kh-60-kh godov. Khabarovsk, RIO
DVGNB, 2001. 136 p. illus., ports. (Seriia istoriia neftianogo Sakhalina,
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3) Sarjeant, William Antony S. Geologists and the history of geology:
an international bibliography from the origins to 1978. Supplement 2, 1985-1993,
and additions. Malabar, FL, Krieger Pub. Co., 1996. 3 v. (xxxiv, 2317 p.) Seibold, Ilse. Die Geologen und die Künste. Stuttgart, E. Schweizerbart'sche
Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2001. 154 p. illus. (some col.) (Kleine Senckenberg-Reihe,
39) Solov'ev, IU. IA., Z. A. Bessudnova, and L. T. Przhedetskaia. Otechestvennye
deistvitel'nye i pochetnye chleny Rossiiskoi akademii nauk XVIII-XX vv.: geologiia
i gornye nauki. Moskva, Nauchnyi mir, 2000. 548 p. ports. MATHEMATICS Bagni, Giorgio Tomaso. Matematici. Treviso, Antilia, 2000. 251 p. illus. Biographical dictionary of mathematicians. Reference biographies from
the Dictionary of scientific biography. New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1991. 4
v. (2696 p.) Biographical encyclopedia of mathematicians. Editor, Donald R. Franceschetti.
New York, Marshall Cavendish, 1999. 2 v. illus. Chronologie der Naturwissenschaften: der Weg der Mathematik und der
Naturwissenschaften von den Anfängen in das 21. Jahrhundert. Im Auftrag der Sächsischen
Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, herausgegeben von Karl-Heinz Schlote.
Frankfurt am Main, H. Deutsch, 2002. 1258 p. Complexities: women in mathematics. Edited by Bettye Anne Case, Anne M.
Leggett. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2005. xix, 412 p., 22
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University College Dublin Press, 2000. 150 p. ports. Donnini, Alfredo. La matematica come fatto culturale: il Medioevo e
i francescani. S. Maria degli Angeli, Assisi (Pg), Edizioni Porziuncola, 2004. 224 p From Newton to Hawking: a history of Cambridge University's Lucasian
professors of mathematics. Edited by Kevin C. Knox, Richard Noakes. Cambridge, UK, New
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1989. 433 p. James, I. M. Remarkable mathematicians: from Euler to von Neumann. Washington,
Mathematical Association of America; Cambridge, UK, New York, Cambridge University
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in mathematics. Providence, RI, American Mathematical Society, 2005. 212
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1997. xxiii, 399 p. ports. (Wiley series in probability and mathematical
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Firenze, Polistampa, 2001. 182 p. illus. (some col.) Mathematical sciences, who's who. Edited by B. K. Dass. New Delhi, Taru
Publications and Academic Forum, 2004. 165 p. illus. Mathematicians and computer wizards. Detroit, Macmillan Reference USA,
2001. 426 p. ports. (Macmillan profiles) McClure, Judy. Theoreticians and builders: mathematicians, physical
scientists, inventors. Austin, Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 2000. 80 p. illus. (Remarkable
women) McElroy, Tucker. A to Z of mathematicians. New York, Facts On File, 2005.
308 p. illus. (Notable scientists) More mathematical people: contemporary conversations. Edited by Donald
J. Albers, Gerald L. Alexanderson, Constance Reid. San Diego, Academic Press,
1994. xviii, 375 p. illus. Muir, Jane. Of men and numbers: the story of the great mathematicians. New York, Dover Publications, 1996. Nomdedeu Moreno, Xaro. Mujeres, manzanas y matemáticas: entretejidas. Madrid, Nivola Libros Ediciones, 2000. 184 p. illus. (La matemática
en sus personajes, 7) Notable mathematicians: from ancient times to the present. Robyn V. Young,
editor. Detroit, Gale, 1998. xxi, Notable women in mathematics: a biographical dictionary. Edited by Charlene
Morrow and Teri Perl. Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1998. xv, 302 p. ports. Russian mathematicians in the 20th century. Editor, Yakov Sinai. Singapore,
River Edge, NJ, World Scientific, 2003. 700 p. illus. Statisticians of the centuries. C. C. Heyde, E. Seneta, editors; P. Crépel,
S. E. Fienberg, J. Gani, associate editors. New York, Springer, 2001. 500
p. illus. Wolf prize in mathematics. Edited by S. S. Chern and F. Hirzebruch. Singapore,
River Edge, NJ, World Scientific, 2000-2001. 2 v. illus. MEDICAL SCIENCES Académie nationale de médecine, Paris (France). Index
biographique des membres, des associés et des correspondants de l’Académie
de médecine, 1820-1990. 4 éd. Paris, Académie de médecine,
1991. xix, 289 p. Accardo, Pasquale J. The medical almanac: a calendar of dates of significance
to the profession of medicine, including fascinating illustrations, medical
milestones, dates of birth and death of notable physicians, brief biographical
sketches, quotations, and assorted medical curiosities and trivia. Totowa,
NJ, Humana Press, 1992. 247 p. illus., facsims., ports. Album chirurgów polskich. Pod red. Witolda Rudowskiego i Andrzeja
Sródki. Wroclaw, Zaklad Narodowy im. Ossolinskich, 1990. 344 p. illus.,
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Olga Maranjian Church, and Alice P. Stein. New York, Garland, 1988-2000.
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