Biography and History
- Biography.com
Search through 15,000 paragraph-length biographies of notable personalities from antiquity to the present. From the Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia, entries include dates, pronunciation guides, the gender, alternate spellings of the name, and
other relevant biography links, if any.
- Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics
Eighty-six twentieth century women who have made original and important contributions to physics are profiled. Citations describe and document their major contributions and provide biographical information pertaining to the scientific lives of these women.
- Echo Research Center
Echo's research center catalogues, annotates, and reviews sites on the history of science, technology, and industry. You can browse their database of over 5,000 sites by topic, time period, publisher or content.
- HyperHistory
Online
Begins with David and Solomon and ends 3000 years later with Einstein, Picasso, Roosevelt
and Churchill. In between, in divisions of 10 years, the major events, empires and invasions,
inventions and achievements, rulers and leaders, writers, philosophers and scientists of world
history can be reviewed at a single glance...with links to sites with more
specific information.
- Institute and Museum of the History of Science,
Florence, Italy
Don't miss the online exhibitions and models. (A few parts of the site are in Italian only, most are also in English.)
- Internet History of Science Sourcebook
Links to original source material and to other history of science resources.
- Museum of the History of Science
Don't miss the virtual versions of exhibitions and other resources in their On-line Exhibits.
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National Women's History Project
This is a comprehensive resource for multicultural women's history.
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Last updated: 6 November 2008
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