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Catalog of the Scientific Community in the 16th and 17th Centuries
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Chemical Genealogy database
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Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics
Dictionary of Scientific Biography
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Mathematical Genealogy Project
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National Institutes of Health, Oral Histories
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Niels Bohr Library Oral Histories
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Nobel Prizes (Nobel Foundation web site)
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Physicist's "Family Trees"
Traces the professional genealogies of physicists, particularly in high-energy physics.
The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
Brief biographies arranged by subject area, with references.
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