Biographies of Women Mathematicians
http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm
Illustrating the work of women in mathematics with brief biographical essays, commentary, and some photographs. Especially helpful for biographical information on women mathematicians before 1930.
Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography
This site lists famous scientists including prize winners
Famous Scientists
https://www.famousscientists.org/
Biographies of hundreds of scientists.
Famous Scientists, from Biography Online
https://www.biographyonline.net/scientists.html
Biographies of well-known scientists, from Hippocrates to Hawking.
The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/index.html
Click on the Biographies Index link to find brief biographies of great mathematicians throughout history.
Mathematicians in the African Diaspora
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/index.html
Men and women from Africa and the African Diaspora who have made gains in the knowledge and use of mathematics, science, engineering, and medicine. Includes ancient and modern mathematicians and scientists as well as statistics on the number of blacks earning Ph.D. degrees in mathematics by year. Last updated in 2002.
Nobel Prize Winners
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists/all-nobel-prizes/
List of all Nobel Laureates with links to pictures and information on laureates’ contributions, and text or video of their Nobel lectures.
People and Discoveries, from PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/bioindex.html
Brief biographies of 20th century scientists.
Profiles in Science
Biographies, digitized articles and documents, and photographs of prominent 20th century scientists in the fields of public health and biomedical research.
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