History of Science: Biography

Browse or search by name or keyword through 25,000 of the greatest lives ever lived, courtesy of the A&E Channel.

Biography.com's group 'famous scientists.'

Search 30,000 short entries from Infoplease.

Obituaries of Royal Society Fellows. Can search for specific Fellows using the Advanced search.

The Database of Scientific Illustrators was created by the Section for History of Science and Technology, University of Stuttgart. It lists illustrators of scientific publications of all genres (especially atlases, articles, textbooks) who were active between 1450 and 1950.

Includes 631 biographies of western scientists from the 16th and 17th centuries.