4000 years of women in science
http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/
Brief biographical information is given for over 125 women scientists, covering inventors, scholars, writers, mathematicians and astronomers, for the period up to the 19th century. Some 20th century scientists are listed with links to sites containing further information. References to books and journal articles, photographs, a quiz, a crossword puzzle and links to other sites are also included. This site grew out of the public talks given by Dr Sethanne Howard and has been created by Dr Howard and Dr Deborah Crocker.
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Archives of Women in Science and Engineering (WISE)
http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/wise/wise.html
"The Archives of Women in Science and Engineering seeks to preserve the historical heritage of American women in science and engineering". Based at Iowa State University, the Archives collects and catalogues the personal papers of women scientists and engineers together with records of US women's science and engineering organisations. The archives' website provides details of its holdings, with catalogue entries for some of the records. Links to related websites are included.
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Australian Academy of Science Biographical Memoirs
http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/aasmemoirs/aas_memlist.htm
This site contains over 90 detailed biographical articles about Australian scientists who were Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science. The memoirs were originally published in 'Records of the Australian Academy of Science', vols 1-4 (1966-80); or in 'Historical Records of Australian Science', vol. 5 onwards (1980- ). The memoirs were originally prepared for publication as part of Bright Sparcs by the Australian Science Archives Project.
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Biographies of Alchemists and Hermetic Philosophers
http://www.levity.com/alchemy/biograph.html
This resource contains the biographies of 72 noted alchemists, scientists and philosophers, taken from the Rice University 'Catalog of the Scientific Community in the 16th and 17th Centuries'. Each biography contains information such as dates, education, nationality, scientific discipline(s), technological developments, and reference sources.
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Biographies [of Scientists]
http://www.strangescience.net/bios.htm
Michon Scott provides a resource with summary biographies of many of the most significant scientists who contributed to the development of earth sciences worldwide.
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Bright Sparcs
http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/
Bright Sparcs is a searchable and browsable collection of over 3000 people involved in the development of science, technology and medicine in Australia. It is published by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre. The site contains biographical details, online resources, archives and published resources. There are online exhibits for several scientists and research areas (eg Sir Mark Oliphant, the Pasteur Institute, Jock Marshall), and users' and teachers' guides.
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Catalog of the scientific community in the 16th and 17th centuries
http://galileo.rice.edu/lib/catalog.html
This catalogue is a searchable collection of over 600 detailed biographies of members of the scientific community. It was compiled by the late Richard S. Westfall, Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University, USA.
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Chemical achievers : the human face of the chemical sciences
http://www.chemheritage.org/classroom/chemach/
This Chemical Heritage Foundation website aims to present the human face of chemistry, via a series of biographies and reports about eminent chemists. The history of chemistry is broken down into the following topics: forerunners; theory and production of gases; electrochemistry and electrochemical industries; the path to the periodic table; atomic and nuclear structure; chemical synthesis, structure and bonding; pharmaceuticals and the path to biomolecules; petroleum and petrochemicals; plastics and other polymers; chemical engineering; and human and natural environmental concerns. Each section contains a brief introduction to the topic and links to chemists who have made discoveries or carried out pioneering research in that field. The site also includes a bibliography.
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Chemical Genealogy Database
http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mainzv/Web_Genealogy/
The Chemical Genealogy Database is an innovative presentation of the lineage of prominent chemists and related scientists. For each chemist named, the 'intellectual line of descent' is traced, showing the person's mentors, and those people he or she would later inspire or teach. A short biography of each scientist is provided in PDF format, which requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view. The biography contains dates, place(s) of study, brief accompanying text and references. The site is best viewed in Internet Explorer.
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Contributions of 20th Century Women To Physics
http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/
An archive of data on over 80 twentieth century women who have made original and important contributions to physics, and whose contributions to physics were published before 1976. The Web page describes their major contributions to different areas of physics and provides biographical information pertaining to their scientific achievements. Fields covered include astrophysics, atomic physics, molecular physics, optics, condensed matter, cosmic rays, crystallography, fluid dynamics, plasma physics, geophysics, materials physics, mathematical physics, nuclear physics, particles and fields, beams, and space physics. The site includes the full-text of documents written by some of the women. It was compiled by Nina Byers with the help of colleagues at UCLA.
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Distinguished women of past and present : Invention
http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/subject/invention.html
Created by Danuta Bois, this website provides a directory of websites and some brief biographies of famous women inventors.
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Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/
This site contains short biographies of famous scientists including archaeologists, astronomers, biochemists, biologists, chemists, computer scientists, economists, engineers, geneticists, geologists, historians, mathematicians, meteorologists, microbiologists, mineralogists, opticians, paleontologists, philosophers, physicians, physicists, physiologists, psychologists, scholars, and sociologists. An alphabetical index is also available along with FAQs, a search engine, and a what's new section. There are over 1000 entries and contributors are welcome. The site has been created by Eric W. Weisstein with assistance from the Internet community.
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Famous Physicists and Astronomers
http://www.phy.hr/~dpaar/fizicari/
This site provides details of the main scientific achievements and a short biography of some of the most important physicists and astronomers in history. It was compiled by Dalibor Paar, Department of Physics, University of Zagreb, Croatia.
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Famous Scientists
http://www.ziplink.net/~pik/Famous%20Scientists.html
This site provides a collection of links to more than 100 websites dedicated to famous scientists, covering a range of disciplines. There are also pointers to more general sites, such as Nobel laureates and scientific search engines.
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FECS Millennium Project : 100 Distinguished European Chemists
http://www.euchems.org/Distinguished/index.asp
As part of the Millennium Celebrations, The Federation of European Chemical Societies (FECS) commissioned a project to determine the 100 most distinguished chemists of the past 200 years, as nominated by societies and individual members. For each of the 100 chemists listed, a brief biography is provided containing career details, achievements and links to other Web resources. The overall list is organised into 18th, 19th and 20th Century divisions.
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French Physicists Contemporary with Fourier and Poisson
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Napoleonic/RouseBall/RB_FrPhys.
This website produced by Dr David R Wilkins of the School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin, is a brief account of the life and works of French physicists contemporary with Fourier and Poisson. These include Sadi Carnot, Andre Marie Ampere, Augustin Jean Fresnel, Jean Baptiste Biot, and Francois Jean Dominique Arago. The website is adapted from 'A Short Account of the History of Mathematics' by W W Rouse Ball (4th Edition, 1908).
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Gallery of electromagnetic personalities
http://www.ece.umd.edu/~taylor/frame1.htm
The 'Gallery of Electromagnetic Personalities' is a website containing a history of people who have investigated electromagnetism in history. It includes the short stories of famous scientists, historical photographs and some useful links. The scientists are separated into eight groups.
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History of thermodynamics
http://www.mhtl.uwaterloo.ca/courses/me354/history.html
This page is part of an online engineering course by Richard Culham at the Microelectronics Heat Transfer Laboratory, University of Waterloo. It focuses on the history of thermodynamics, providing a timeline of the subject and biographies of the pioneers.
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Images of Physicists
http://charm.physics.ucsb.edu/people/hnn/physicists.html
The 'Images of Famous Physicists' site is compiled by Harry Nelson, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of High Energy Physics. In this site, there are images of many famous physicists, such as: Marie Curie and Albert Einstein. There are also some links to other relevant sites, for example, the Emilio Segre Visual Archives; a site of images maintained in Frankfurt, Germany by Joachim Reinhardt; some links to Caltech images; and a page containing images of many chemists, as well as physicists, which is maintained by John Park of Diamond Bar High School.
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MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/
This page, from the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland, has links to short essays on the history of some of the major topics in mathematics, mathematical physics and astronomy. Throughout the essays there are links to biographies of the leading names in the field, and various quotes. There are also birthplace maps and a mathematician of the day feature. The cultures covered include Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek, Indian, Arabic, Mayan, American and Scottish and mathematical topics covered include algebra, analysis, numbers and number theory, geometry and topology, mathematical physics, mathematical astronomy, and mathematical education. There is also a page with various different curves, giving formulae and Java applets for viewing various related curves.
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National Academy of Sciences : Biographical Memoirs
http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=MEMOIRS_A
Published since 1877, Biographical Memoirs are brief biographies of deceased National Academy of Sciences (NAS) members, written by those who knew them or their work. The NAS plans to make the entire collection of Biographical Memoirs available online as PDFs.
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Nobel Prize in Physics 1901 - 2000
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/articles/karlsson/
This essay, by Erik Karlsson, on the history of the Nobel Prize in Physics in the twentieth century covers the landmarks in international physics research, the theories developed, and the physicists responsible for the pioneering work.
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Nobel Prize Internet Archive
http://almaz.com/nobel/nobel.html
This site, operated by Ona Wu, lists Nobel prize winners in all categories including physics and chemistry from 1901- date, with links to further information about the individual scientists and their work. Visitors to the site can add links to further resources about the Nobel laureates.
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Nobel Prize Winners
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Societies/Nobel.html
This site from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland, provides biographies of famous mathematicians who have won Nobel prizes (mainly for physics).
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Oppenheimer : a Life
http://ohst.berkeley.edu/oppenheimer/exhibit/
This site is an online centennial exhibit on the life of the physicist J Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), known for his work on the atomic bomb, by the Office for History of Science and Technology, University of California, Berkeley. It covers five stages of his life: 'The early years', 'Building a school' (the development of the University of California, Berkeley, Physics Department), 'Los Alamos', 'A changed world' and 'The price of security'.
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