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Famous Scientists - Biographies


General

Biographies - scientists
- short biographies organised in alphabetical order

Bright Sparcs

- a register of people involved in the development of science, technology, engineering and medicine in Australia

Nobel Prize winner
- enter scientists name in the search box

People and discoveries

People: Science and technology

- from Fact Monster. Enter scientist in search box

World of scientific biography
- select Alphabetical index. Summary of scientists work


Astronomy

Astronomy - biographies
- from Fact Monster. Enter scientist in search box

Astronomy – Biographies

Famous astronomers and physicists

- click on scientists name and them on  Full MacTutor biography

Physics and astronomy - people and discoveries

Carolyn Herschel
Carolyn Lucretia Herschel

Galileo
Galileo's battle for the heavens
Galileo Galilei – Astronomer and physicist

Galileo Project

Halley, Edmund

Edwin Hubble - Time 100


Evolution

Anthropology biography

Fossil hominids - biographies

Human evolution Interactive

Darwin, Charles

Darwin - American Museum of natural History. Includes video
Life and Times of Charles Darwin

Leakey family
The Leakey Family – Time 100
Leakey foundation



Human physiology

Timeline of medical advances

Harvey, William
William Harvey

Van Leeuwenhoek, Antonie
Antony van Leeuwenhoek


Medicine
Timeline of medical advances

Medicine and health
- people and discoveries

Curie, Marie
Curie, Marie and the science of radioactivity
Marie Curie

Eijkmann, Christiaan

Fleming, Alexander
- Historic figure in science
Alexander Fleming - Time 100

Howard Florey

Jenner, Edward (1749-1823)
Jenner, Edward
- Historic figure
The Jenner Museum

Pasteur, Louis
- Historic figure in science

Salk, Jonas
Salk, Jonas (1914-1995)


Website Evaluation activity
NASA's Solar System Exploration
Chemistry World