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History of Science Secondary Sources by Type

Guide to Secondary Sources (by Type) in the history of science, technology & medicine

Bibliographies - Biographies of Scientists

Biographies of scientists : an annotated bibliography by Roger Smith
Publication Date: 1998
An index to biographical fragments in unspecialized scientific journals by E. Scott Barr
Publication Date: 1973
Index to scientists of the world, from ancient to modern times: biographies and portraits. by Norma Olin Ireland
Publication Date: 1962
Prominent scientists : an index to collective biographies by Paul A. Pelletier
Publication Date: 1985
Scientists since 1660 : a bibliography of biographies by Leslie Howsam
Publication Date: 1997

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries - Biographical

Here are examples of biographical dictionaries & encyclopedias focusing on topics, disciplines or time periods in the history or science.

Disciplines

Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers (Online access) by Thomas Hockey (Editor)
Publication Date: 2007
Also available in print
Mapmakers of the Sixteenth Century and Their Maps: Bio-bibliographies of the Cartographers of Abraham Ortelius, 1570: Based on Leo Bagrow's A. Ortelii Catalogus Cartographorum
Publication Date: 1993

Time Periods & Cultures

The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists by Bernard V. Lightman; Bernard Lightman (Editor)
Publication Date: 2004
Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists by Paul T. Keyser (Editor); Georgia L. Irby-Massie (Editor)
Publication Date: 2008

Encyclopedia & Dictionaries - Women in HSTM

African American Women Chemists by Jeannette E. Brown
ISBN: 9780199742882
Publication Date: 2011
Biographical Dictionary of Women Healers by Laurie Scrivener; J. Suzanne Barnes
Publication Date: 2002
Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science by Marilyn B. Ogilvie; Joy D. Harvey
Publication Date: 2000
Women in Chemistry and Physics by Louise S. Grinstein; Miriam H. Rafailovich; Rose K. Rose
Publication Date: 1993