A wide variety of print and electronic resources for finding the biographies of engineers, inventors, Nobel Prize winners, nurses, physicians, psychologists, scientists, and other notable pioneers and personalities.
This list emphasizes women of the past, mainly pre- 20th century.
Format: Website
Provider: University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Contains over 25,000 biographies, past and present.
Format: Website
Award winning site to search for biographical information on women by field of activity, women currently in the news, women in black history, etc. The link to related sites is wonderful!
Format: Website
Provider: Danuta Bois
Sources available in the History of Medicine Collections at Duke and/or the Reference Collection. Titles listed as International, British and French sources.
Format: Website
Provider: Duke University Medical Center Library
Women who have won the Nobel Prize.
Format: Website
Howard University Medical Department, Washington, D.C. : A Historical, Biographical, and Statistical Souvenir
Originally published in 1900, this work consists of short biographical sketches of African American staff and students; most entries include portraits.
Format: Book
History W19.2AD6 H831
Provider: Howard University Medical Department
Provides access to people locators (including obituaries and death notices) and specialized directories (A&E Biography, attorney directories, medical sciences, etc). Additional biographies can be found at the Internet Movie Database (IMDB). Also contains a link to the Dead People Server, which lists "interesting celebrities who are long dead, newly dead or might plausibly be dead." Note: must be viewed with Netscape 6.0 or higher.
Format: Website
Provider: Internet Prospector
Searchable by name, year of induction, or invention. This site is dedicated to those who conceived the technological advances which this nation fosters through its Patent system. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) database consists of full-text US Patents from 1976 to the present. The Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS) contains more than 3 million pending, registered and dead federal trademarks.
Format: Website
This site makes the archival collections of prominent twentieth-century biomedical scientists available to the public through modern digital technology. The collections have been donated to the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and contain published and unpublished materials, including books, journal volumes, pamphlets, diaries, letters, manuscripts, photographs, audio tapes, and other audiovisual materials to support biographical research.
Format: Website
The Man Behind the Syndrome
Biographies of men and women who described various syndromes which bear their names. Some biographies include portraits.
Format: Book
History Ref. WZ112 B39m
Information on all Nobel Prize winners in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace since 1901, and the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences (since 1969) in memory of Alfred Nobel. The autobiographies consist mainly of articles previously published in the journal series Les Prix Nobel along with press release statements and portraits. You may search by prize, name, year awarded or choose from a list of all prizes.
Format: Website
A biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. It is the ambition to present a complete survey of all medical phenomena named for a person, with a biography of that person. Eventually, this will include more than 15.000 eponyms and more than 6.000 persons.
Format: Database
Provider: Ole Daniel Enersen
This bibliography grew out of a project begun by Dr. Marjorie S. Sirridge, with assistance from Brenda R. Pfannenstiel. An article describing autobiographies from early women physicians appears in: Sirridge, Marjorie S. and Brenda R. Pfannenstiel. "Daughters of Aesculapius: A Selected Bibliography of Autobiographies of Women Medical School Graduates 1849-1920." Literature and Medicine, Fall 1996; 15(2):200-216.
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