Scientist Biographies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Nobel Prize

http://nobelprize.org/

The official web site of the Nobel Foundation. Providing a wealth of background to every Nobel Prize since 1901, the site presents Nobel Lectures, biographies, interviews, photos, articles, video clips, press releases, educational games and a great deal more information about the Nobel Laureates and their work.

 

 

Eric Weisstein’s World of Scientific Biography

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/

Eric Weisstein's World of Science contains encyclopedias of astronomy, scientific biography, chemistry, and physics.

 

 

DNA Interactive- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

http://www.dnai.org/timeline/index.html

 

An interactive timeline that offer biographies arranged by decades of discovery.

 

 

The Genome News Network

http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/resources/timeline/

 

A genetics and genome timeline with biographical information on the geneticists listed, with pictures available for many. 

 

 

 

Online Encyclopedias  http://genoaschools.net/Staff/pscline/HS%20Online%20Resources%20Page.htm

 

 

Biographies Plus Illustrated (under History and Biography)

http://www.oplin.org/databases/    

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        Science Online

 

 

 

    Oxford Reference Online- Science

Oxford Reference Online: The Premium Collection contains more than 130 complete reference titles, fully indexed and cross-searchable, from a wide range of disciplines, as well as Web sites and timelines.

 

 

  Having trouble finding illustrations? Try one of the following:

 

Genetic Illustrations - provided by the the National Human Genome Research Institute, illustrations can be viewed in html or as pdf files

http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/DIR/VIP/Learning_Tools/genetic_illustrations.html

 

 

Graphics Gallery - a collection of drawings from Access Excellence designed to illustrate genetic concepts and activities

http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/GG/

 

 

 

  You may find information in the following books from your high school library:

   REF 570 Wor              World of Biology

 

    REF 570.92 Lif            Life Science in the Twentieth Century

 

    REF 920 Bai                American women in science : a biographical dictionary

    REF 920 Cam               The Cambridge dictionary of scientists

    REF 920 Nob               Nobel prize winners : an H.W. Wilson biographical dictionary

    REF 920.03 Asi            Asimov's biographical encyclopedia of science and technology

    REF 925 Sci                Scientists : the lives and works of 150 scientists

    REF 925 Sci                Scientists and inventors

 

 

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