History of Mathematics Links:
Biographies of Scientists

The following sites each provide biographies of a substantial number of scientists or mathematicians. Other sites with biographical information concening mathematicians are listed under Biographies of Mathematicians, and under Sites relating to Individual Mathematicians.

• Catalogue of the Scientific Community: 16th and 17th Centuries, compiled by Richard S. Westfall.
• Eric's World of Scientific Biography (E.W. Weisstein, Wolfram Research)
• Museo Galileo - Biographies Index
• 4000 Years of Women in Science (University of Alabama)
• Australian Academy of Science - Biographical Memoirs of Deceased Fellows
• Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics (Nina Byers and colleagues, UCLA)
• History of Astronomy: Persons (Astronomiae Historia) (Dr. Wolfgang R. Dick, Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie, Potsdam)

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