FINDING HISTORICAL  INFORMATION ABOUT SCIENTISTS:
A QUICK GUIDE

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-

• 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-

• 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

Return to top of page

Return to Home Page

Staff | Libraries | Subject Guides | Electronic Resources
Class Materials | Departments and Programs

European History: A Guide to Resources
This Site Created by Barbara Walden and Maintained by Lisa Wettleson
University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries
© 2001, The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Last Update:01.24.01