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Famous Scientists


Inventor of the Week Archives from Invention Dimension (http://web.mit.edu/invent/i-archive.html) (6th and up)
Find inventors by their last names for some info about them and their invention.

4000 Years of Women in Science Biography Listing (http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/summary.shtml) (6th and up)
Learn brief information on women and their achievements in science from early times until the 19th century.

Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated (6th and up)
This database contains more than 72,000 biographies and obituaries and more than 20,000 photographs of the subjects. The biographies are searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, titles of works, date of birth, date of death, keyword, and presence of images. 
(Remote access available to WNPL cardholders.)

World of Scientific Biography (http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/) (6th and up)
Over one thousand biographies organized by branch of science, minority status, historic period, nationality, and prize winners.