Research Guides: Physics: Biographies

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Biography and Genealogy Master Index This link opens in a new window
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Indexed resources on where to find biographical material on people from all time periods, geographic locations, and fields of endeavor.
Gale In Context: Biography This link opens in a new window
Includes biographical entries covering international figures from all time periods and areas of study.
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles from multi-volume encyclopedias, biographical collections, business plan handbooks, company history compilations, consumer health references, and specialized reference sources.

African Americans in Science, Math, and Invention, rev. ed. by Spangenburg, Ray
Call Number: REF Q141 .S6285 2012
Publication Date: 2012
Provides a biographical profile, surveying significant events in that person's life related to his or her accomplishments in these fields, followed by an up-to-date further reading list on that individual.
American Men and Women of Science, 22nd-30th eds. by Andrea Kovacs Henderson (Editor)
Publication Date: 2005-2012
Profiles living persons in the physical and biological fields, as well as public health scientists, engineers, mathematicians, statisticians, and computer scientists.

Nobel Prize in Physics
Includes biographies for individual physicists.
Biographical Memoirs
Brief biographies of deceased National Academy of Sciences members, written by those who knew them or their work.
Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics
Descriptions of important contributions to science made by 83 women in the 20th century. These are documented by the original papers in which the discoveries were first reported. In addition there are historical essays and other historical documents not easily available elsewhere.
SACNAS Biography Project
From the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.