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Arago, Dominique Francois Jean. Biographies of distinguished scientific
men. Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press, 1972. 2 v. Asimov, Isaac. Asimov's biographical encyclopedia of science
and technology; the lives and achievements of 1510 great scientists
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1984+ Philadelphia, Institute for Scientific Information, 1985+
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p. In process Gascoigne, Robert M. A chronology of the history of science,
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Bibliographie zur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften. Hrsg. von
Fritz Krafft. 2., neubearb. und erw. Aufl. Dusseldorf, VDI, 1986.
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zur Geschichte der exakten Wissenschaften. Leipzig, Barth, 1863-1904;
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Mondadori, 1975+ Turkevich, John, and Ludmilla B. Turkevich. Prominent scientists
of continental Europe. New York, American Elsevier, 1968. 204 p. Who's who in science in Europe; a biographical guide in science,
technology, agriculture, and medicine. 5th ed. Harlow, Essex, UK,
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science. Freeport, NY, Books for Libraries Press, 1969. 278 p. Cohen, Harry, and Itzhak J. Carmin, eds. Jews in the world of
science; a biographical dictionary of Jews eminent in the natural
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James Prescott Joule, William Thomson, James Clerk Maxwell. New
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p. Halacy, D. S. They gave their names to science. New York, Putnam,
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of the giants of 19th-century science, by their scientific contemporaries.
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c1982. 110 p. Walsh, James J. Catholic churchmen in science; sketches of the
lives of Catholic ecclesiastics who were among the great founders
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in books and magazines. v. 1+ Jan. 1946+ New York, H. W. Wilson. Herzenberg, Caroline L. Women scientists from antiquity to the
present, an index; an international reference listing and biographical
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history of science formed from ISIS critical bibliographies 91-100
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John Neu. London, Mansell in conjunction with the History of Science
Society, 1980+ The New York times biographical service. v. 6+ 1975+ New York,
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the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Consultant editors,
Sally Gregory Kohlstedt and others. Westport, Conn., Greenwood
Press, 1979. 360 p. Fortune. Great American scientists: America's rise to the forefront
of world science. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1961. 144
p. Haber, Louis. Black pioneers of science and invention. New York,
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science told through the lives and achievements of twenty outstanding
men from earliest colonial times to the present day. Rev. ed. New
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Who's Who in American Education, 1968. 681 p. National Academy of Sciences. Biographical memoirs. v.1+ Washington,
DC, 1877+ National union catalog of manuscript collections. 1959/61+ Washington,
Library of Congress. Noble, Iris. Contemporary women scientists of America. New York,
J. Messner, 1979. 158 p. A Passion to know; 20 profiles in science. Allen L. Hammond,
editor. New York, Scribner, 1984. 240 p. Special Libraries Association. Science-Technology Division.
Handbook of scientific and technical awards in the United States
and Canada, 1900-1952. Edited by Margaret A. Firth. New York, Special
Libraries Association, 1956. 491 p. Swisher, Robert. Black American biography, compiled by Robert
Swisher; and Black American scientists, compiled by Carol Tullis;
and Black Americans in public affairs, compiled by Richard Hicks.
Bloomington, Indiana University Libraries, 1969. 52 p. Thiesmeyer, Lincoln R., and John E. Burchard. Combat scientists.
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and Bibliography Division. Biographical sources for the United
States. Compiled by Jane Kline. Washington, 1961. 58 p. Who was who in American history--science and technology. A component
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Lippincott, 1955. 232 p. ----- Modern Americans in science and invention. New York, F.
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celebri italiani dal sec. XV° al sec. XVIII°. Roma, Istituto
naz. medico farmacologico "Serono," 1928-32. 2 v. Deutsche Forscher aus sechs Jahrhunderten; Lebensbilder von Ärzten,
Naturwissenschaftlern und Technikern. Leipzig, Bibliographisches
Institut, 1965. 440 p. Diccionario histórico de la ciencia moderna en España.
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scientifiques franéais. Paris, Office national Des universites
et écoles françaises, 1962-67. 5 v. Fueter, Eduard, ed. Grosse Schweizer Forscher. 2., erw. Aufl.
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deíatelíiakh estestvoznaniía i tekhniki. Matematika,
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Abstracting and indexing services that index relevant journal articles and other literature are listed below.
Journals that often contain biographical articles on scientists, or bibliographic listings of relevant books and articles, include:
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