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Carver, George Washington 
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Curie, Marie 
Curie, Pierre 
Darwin, Charles 
Einstein, Albert 
Faraday, Michael 
Fleming, Alexander 
Franklin, Benjamin 
Galileo 
Galton, Francis 
Hawking, Stephen 
Leeuwenhoek, Antony van 
Mendel, Gregor 
Newton, Isaac 
Nobel, Alfred 
Pascal, Blaise 
Pasteur, Louis 
Pauling, Linus 
Roentgen, Wilhelm 
Salk, Jonas 

Websites
Explore the life and accomplishments of this electrical inventor, enter an interactive laboratory with sounds, animations and explanations of Tesla's key inventions, take virtual tours demonstrating how power and radio are transmitted from a station to your home. Companion site to the PBS television production.
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PBS: Tesla Master of Lightning  Tesla will be rebroadcast on PBS in April 2004 (check local listings) Promotional support provided by:...
http://www.pbs.org/tesla/

Short biography of Lorenzo Amedeo Avogadro - the person behind the concept of mole.
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Home page of Avogadro  His father was a distinguished lawyer and civil servant, becoming a senator of Piedmont in 1768, and was appointed advocate general to the senate of Vittorio Amedeo III in 1777. Under the French rule of 1799 he was made president...
http://www.bulldog.u-net.com/avogadro/avoga.html

History of women in science from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Includes biographies, photographs, and references.
http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/4000WS.html

Book has biographies of fifteen women scientists. Ten of them won the Nobel Prize in science; the other five were crucial in discoveries that led to a Nobel for someone else. Illustrated.
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10016.html

Provides biographies of women scientists throughout history, along with a timeline and a list of career fields.
http://www.liquidleaf.com/historia/historia.html

Provides biographies and photographs of five Canadian scientists.
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/science/english/canadian/index.html

Provides simple biographies of astronomers, philosophers, and scientists from ancient times through the modern day.
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/tour_def/people/people.html

Short biographies of more than a dozen scientists who conducted experiments in the field of energy.
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/scientists/index.html

Biographies of scientists, collectors and artists in the fields of paleontology and biology.
http://www.strangescience.net/bios.htm

Guide to science biography indexed by subject and academic level, timelines and science on stamps.
http://www.juliantrubin.com/sciencebiography.html

Celebrates the accomplishments of contemporary women active in science-related fields. A new profile is added each day during the month of June. Past profiles are archived on site.
http://www.witi.com/center/witim...seum/womeninsciencet/index.shtml

About the life, goals, research, and achievements of this child prodigy who was, at 11, the youngest winner of the Washington State Science and Engineering Fair.
http://www.andrewhsu.com/

Scientists from the Natural History Museum describe their jobs, and why they chose to work with rocks or insects or fossils.
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/kids-only/get-the-facts/ologist/

Gives biographical backgrounds about early astronomers, biologists, chemists, engineers, inventors, physicists and radiologists. Also, has general description of some main branches of science.
http://www.scipeeps.com/

Biographies of African Americans working in the science fields, ranging from geologists and astronomers to mathematicians and inventors.
https://webfiles.uci.edu/mcbrown/display/faces.html