Influential Thinkers
Scientists and Inventors

Online Subscription Services

For home use, under Online Subscription Services, click Database Passwords, and enter the password Mohawk to access all database passwords.

Grolier Online  3 general encyclopedias and 1 science encyclopedia)

http://go-passport.grolier.com

Biography Resource Center

On LMC web page <http://bcsd.k12.ny.us/middle/lmc/lmc.htm> Under Online Subscription Services.  Click Gale’s Biography Resource Center

Websites

4,000 Years of Women in Science

http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/summary.shtml

Biographies of Women Mathematicians

http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm

Biography.com

http://www.biography.com/search/

Black Inventors A to Z

http://inventors.about.com/library/blblackinventors.htm

Eric Weisstein’s World of Scientific Biography

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography

The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences

http://webfiles.uci.edu/mcbrown/display/faces.html

Great Scientists

http://www.education-world.com/science/scientists.shtml

National Inventors’ Hall of Fame

http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/1_1_search.asp

Nobel Prize (Click on an award category above, such as physics, or on all Nobel laureates on right)

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes

People and Discoveries (120 twentieth century scientists)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/

Profiles in Science (people in biomedical research and public health)

http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov

A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/bioindex.html

The Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century: Scientists and Thinkers

http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/

Updated May 18, 2009