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Biography Resources for the Sciences (online)
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- American National Biography OnlineAmerican National Biography Online (ANB), provides biographical information about Americans whose lives have shaped the nation. It also includes thousands of images from the National Portrait Gallery.
- Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society (1955-2013)The Royal Society first published obituaries of its Fellows in 1830, in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Initially obituaries were read at the Anniversary meeting and were printed in the record of that meeting. From 1859 they appeared in a separate section at the back. From 1932 obituaries of nearly every deceased Fellow and Foreign Member have appeared in Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society (1932-1954) and Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society (1955 onward).
- Biography Index Retrospective: 1946-1983 (H.W. Wilson)This resource provides information about people from antiquity to 1983, from resources from 1946 to 1983, in a single, easy-to-use database. Research people in the headlines or throughout history; find information on notables across all disciplines and subject areas with this practical resource.
- Britannica: Academic EditionContains the complete encyclopedia, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, world atlas, and timelines.
- Complete Dictionary of Scientific BiographyProvides information on the history of science through articles on the professional lives of scientists. All periods of science from classical antiquity to modern times are represented. 2008.
- Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific BiographyContains encyclopedias of astronomy, scientific biography, chemistry, and physics
- Gale Virtual Reference LibraryA searchable collection of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
- The Hutchinson dictionary of scientific biographyProvides an authoritative and accessible look at the lives of the men and women who have shaped science. 2014.
- National Academy of Sciences - Biographical MemoirsPublished since 1877, Biographical Memoirs provide the life histories and selected bibliographies of deceased National Academy of Sciences members. Colleagues familiar with the subject's work write these memoirs and as such, the series provides a biographical history of science in America.
- Nexis UniProvides full text of selected newspapers worldwide, trade publications, legal periodicals, and legal scholarly journals. Includes company directories, financial reports, quotations, biographies, almanac, federal/state laws, regulations, court opinions, accounting statements/guidelines, and news transcripts.
- Obituary notices of fellows of the Royal Society (12/01/1932 to 11/30/1954)Deceased Fellows of the Royal Society, photo, autograph, bibliographies.
- Official Website of the Nobel FoundationProvides interviews, speeches, Nobel lectures, biographical information on winners, dates of upcoming Nobel Prize announcements.
- Oxford Dictionary of National BiographyThe online dictionary contains 50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2000. An illustrated collection of remarkable people in anywalk of life excluding living people, it includes not just the great and good, but people who have left a mark for any reason, good, bad, or bizarre.
- Profiles in ScienceThe National Library of Medicine (NLM) is making the archival collections of leaders in biomedical research and public health available on its Profiles in Science web site. The site, launched in September 1998, promotes the use of the Internet for research and teaching in the history of biomedical science. Many of the collections have been donated to NLM and contain published and unpublished items, including books, journal volumes, pamphlets, diaries, letters, manuscripts, photographs, audiotapes, video clips, and other materials.
- PubMedAn Abstract/Citation Database, PubMed indexes citations for articles from MEDLINE and OLDMEDLINE as well as out-of-scope citations from additional general science and chemistry journals whose life sciences articles are indexed in MEDLINE. PubMed also indexes additional life science journal articles that submit full text to PubMed Central.
