Many important resources for finding historical information
about scientists are available only in **printed** format.
This guide lists a few of the most important print and electronic (WorldWide
Web) resources available in Memorial Library or via the UW-Madison Libraries
Website.
GUIDES TO ARTICLES AND BOOKS ABOUT SCIENCE AND
SCIENTISTS
Ferguson, Eugene S.
Bibliography of the history of technology. Cambridge,
Mass. : Society for the History of Technology, 1968.
Location:
Memorial Library Stacks Regular Size Shelving
Call Number: Z7914 H5
F4
History of Science and Technology [computer file]
Location:
UW Licensed Electronic Resource
Found on the Libraries Website under : Journal, Magazine, and Newspaper
Databases
http://www.library.wisc.edu/reslist.search/search.cgi?id=isis
For earlier years:
ISIS cumulative bibliography, 1966-1975
Location: Memorial Library Reference Stacks Room 262
Call Number: Q125 I13
Isis cumulative bibliography 1976-1985
Location: Memorial Library Reference Stacks Room 262
Call Number: Q125 I13 1989
Isis cumulative bibliography 1986-95
Location: Memorial Library Reference Stacks Room 262
Call Number: Q125 I13 1997
Each of the ISIS cumulative bibliographies includes sections about "persons".
Rothenberg, Marc, 1949-
The history of science and technology in the United States: a critical
and selective bibliography. New York : Garland Pub., 1982-1993.
Location:
Memorial Library Reference Stacks Room 262
Call Number: Q125 R67 1982
DICTIONARIES, ENCYCLOPEDIAS, AND COLLECTED BIOGRAPHIES
GENERAL:
Dictionary of the history of science / edited by W.F. Bynum,
E.J. Browne, Roy Porter. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,
c1981.
Location:
Memorial Library Reference Stacks Room 262
Call Number: Q125 D457
Creese, Mary R. S., 1935- Ladies in the laboratory? :
American and British women in science, 1800-1900 : a survey of their contributions
to research . Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 1998.
Location: Memorial Library Reference Stacks Room 262
Call Number: Q141 C69 1998
BIOGRAPHIES:
American men & women of science. New York : R.R.
Bowker, c1989-
Continues: American
men and women of science. Physical and biological sciences
Location:
Memorial Library Reference Non-Current Collection 2M South
Call Number: Q141 A47
"A biographical directory of today's leaders in physical, biological and related sciences."
For earlier years:
American men of science : a biographical directory. New York
: the Science Press, [1st
(1906)]-11th ed. (1965)
Location:
Memorial Library Reference Non-Current Collection 2M South
Call Number: Q141 A47
American men and women of science. The physical and biological sciences
. New York : Bowker, 1971-[c1986] Cumulative Index/Finding Aid:
1st ed. (1906)-14th ed. (1979). 1 v.
Location:
Memorial Library Reference Non-Current Collection 2M South
Call Number: Q141 A47
Location: Memorial
Library Stacks Regular Size Shelving
Call Number: Q141 A47
Biographical dictionary of American science : the seventeenth through the
nineteenth centuries
Location: Memorial
Library Reference Stacks Room 262
Call Number: Q141 E37
Biographical encyclopedia of scientists. New York : Marshall
Cavendish, 1998. 5 volumes
Location: Memorial Library
Reference Stacks Room 262
Call Number: Q141 B532 1998
A Biographical encyclopedia of scientists / John Daintith ... [et
al.]. 2nd ed. Bristol ; Philadelphia : Institute of Physics
Pub., 1994. 2 vols.
Location: Memorial Library
Reference Stacks Room 262
Call Number: Q141 B53 1994
Biographical memoirs / National Academy of Sciences of the United
States of America. Washington : The Academy, [1877-
Location:
Memorial Library Stacks Regular Size Shelving
Call Number: AP N273 A168
B
Dictionary of scientific biography. Charles Coulston Gillispie,
editor-in-chief. New York, Scribner [1970]-1990.
Location:
Memorial Library Reference Stacks Room 262
Call Number: Q141 D5
Poggendorff, J. C. (Johann Christian), 1796-1877.
J. C. Poggendorffs biographisch-literarisches
handwörterbuch für mathematik, astronomie, physik mit
geophysik, chemie, kristallographie und verwandte wissensgebiete. Leipzig,
J. A. Barth, 1863-1904.
Location:
Memorial Library Reference Stacks Room 262
Call Number: Z7404 P74
Royal Society (Great Britain). Biographical memoirs of fellows of
the Royal Society. London : The Society, 1955-
(1955)- to now. Continues: Royal Society of London.
Obituary notices of fellows of the Royal Society
Location:
Memorial Library Microforms/Media Center Room 443, Bk&Med
Call Number: Q41 R901
Accompanying volumes are in Memorial Stacks
Location:
Memorial Library Stacks Regular Size Shelving
Call Number: Q41 R901
Biographical index to american science : the seventeenth century
to 1920, compiled by Clark A. Elliott. New York : Greenwood
Press, 1990.
Location:
Memorial Library Reference Stacks Room 262
Call Number: Q141 B533
Current biography [computer file]. [Bronx, N.Y.] : H.W.
Wilson Co.,Coverage begins 1940.
Location:
UW Licensed Electronic Resource
Found on the Libraries Website under : REFERENCE
http://www.library.wisc.edu/reslist.search/search.cgi?id=cb
--------NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS
The Who's who of Nobel Prize winners, 1901-1995 / edited by Bernard
S. Schlessinger and June H. Schlessinger.
Phoenix, Ariz. : Oryx Press, 1996.
Location: Memorial Library Reference
Stacks Room 262
Call Number: AS911 N9 W53 1996
--------WOMEN
Notable women in the physical sciences : a biographical dictionary
/ edited by Benjamin F. Shearer and Barbara S. Shearer. Westport,
Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997.
Location: Memorial Library Reference Stacks Room
262
Call Number: Q141 N734 1997
OTHER USEFUL RESOURCES:
The World of learning. London : Allen & Unwin,
1947-
Annual
Location:
Memorial Library Reference Desk Room 262
Call Number: AS2
W6
Earlier Years are found in: Memorial Library
Stacks Regular Size Shelving
This is a guide to universities, scholarly institutions, and learned
societies around the world.
Research centers directory. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research
Co., 1965-
Location:
Memorial Library Reference Desk Room 262
Call Number: AS25 D5
Parkinson, Claire L. Breakthroughs : a chronology of great
achievements in science and mathematics, 1200-1930
Boston : G.K. Hall, c1985.
Location:
Memorial Library Reference Stacks Room 262
Call Number: Q125 P327
1985
INTERNET MEGASITES:
WWW Virtual Library: History of Science, Technology &
Medicine
http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/hstm/hstm_ove.htm
INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY: SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY REFERENCE
http://www.ipl.org/ref/RR/static/sci0000.html
Includes links to several Website for Nobel
Prize winners
THE SCOUT REPORT FOR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/report/sci-eng/current/index.html
Compiled by:
Barbara Walden
European History/History Outreach Librarian
278G Memorial Library
bwalden@library.wisc.edu
Last updated December, 1999
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