Biography - Science and Math

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

http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/

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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