Links to famous and not so famous scientists

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General links (Use these for browsing and choosing a scientist)

African American Scientists and Inventors

Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove of Scientific Biography

Women in Science

The National Inventors Hall of Fame

 

Astronomers

Edwin Hubble (1884-1953), Another Edwin Hubble Biography - Both of these sites are from the PBS "A Science Odyssey" site.

The Hall of Astronomers from Enchanted Learning.com

 

Biologists

Rachel Carson from the Ecology Hall of Fame

Charles Darwin from a site by Michon Scott. There are other science biographies here as well.

Physicists

Albert Einstein from Time 100 - the 100 most influential people of the century.

Enrico Fermi from Time 100

 

Chemists

Marie Curie from NobelPrize.org

Marie Curie from the Center for the History of Physics. An illustrated and complete biography.

Percy Julien from PBS "A Science Odyssey".

 

Pioneer Doctors

Edward Jenner from the Edward Jenner Museum in England. He developed the vaccination against smallpox.

Elizabeth Blackwell, the first American woman to receive a Medical Degree from the National Library of Medicine.

Dr. Charles Drew, developer of the Blood Bank.

Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of pennicilin, from Time 100 - the 100 most influential people of the century.

Louis Pasteur, developer of the heating technique now called pasteurization, from the French Embassy in Canada.

 

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