New Dictionary of Scientific Biography


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Also available online as part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library under the title Complete dictionary of scientific biography.







New Dictionary of Scientific Biography: Index


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"The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, features more than 800 completely new articles. This new work extends, complements, and comments upon the original Dictionary of Scientific Biography, which contains thousands of biographies of mathematicians and natural scientists from all countries and from all historical periods. The Dictionary of Scientific Biography presents an accurate and reliable narrative of the development of science, not as a mere accumulation of technical information but as the collective accomplishment that has ordered our understanding of nature"--Publisher website (January 2008).







Dictionary of Scientific Biography


Book Description

Also available online as part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library under the title Complete dictionary of scientific biography.




The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography


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Provides an authoritative and accessible look at the lives of the men and women who have shaped science.




New Dictionary of Scientific Biography: Mac Lane-Owen


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"The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, features more than 800 completely new articles. This new work extends, complements, and comments upon the original Dictionary of Scientific Biography, which contains thousands of biographies of mathematicians and natural scientists from all countries and from all historical periods. The Dictionary of Scientific Biography presents an accurate and reliable narrative of the development of science, not as a mere accumulation of technical information but as the collective accomplishment that has ordered our understanding of nature"--Publisher website (January 2008).










Dictionary of Scientific Biography


Book Description

Source contains more than 5,000 biographies of mathematicians and natural scientists from all countries and from all historical periods. It presents an accurate and reliable narrative of the development of science, not as a mere accumulation of technical information but as the collective accomplishment that has ordered our understanding of nature.