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Biography: Science

A guide to print, subscription online resources, and free Web resources about people.

Medicine

All Nobel Laureates in Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded 100 times to 195 Nobel Laureates since 1901.
Profiles in Science
Covers some 20th-century leaders in biomedical research and public health.
Whonamedit.com
Whonamedit.com is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. It presents a survey of all medical phenomena named for a person, with a biography of that person.

Suggested resources

AccessScience Biographies (McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology)
More than 2,000 biographies of well-known scientists.

Suggested websites

4000 Years of Women in Science
Mathematicians' Biographies
Most biographies include a portrait, a list of references, a link to other mathematicians born in the same country, and other useful links.

Nobel Laureates

At Nobelprize.org, the official web site of the Nobel Foundation, you will find Nobel Laureates' biographies and more.

All Nobel Laureates in Chemistry
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded 101 times to 157 Nobel Laureates since 1901.
All Nobel Laureates in Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded 103 times to 187 Nobel Laureates since 1901.
All Nobel Laureates in Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded 100 times to 195 Nobel Laureates since 1901.

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