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Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology

REFERENCE WORK

Isaac Asimov, 1964, Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY. Numbers given are not pages but instead identifiers. Entries are chronological.

People in this reference:493
Those presently living:9
Those deceased:484
  
White:478
Middle Eastern:7
Asian:4
Asian/Indian:2
Multiracial:1
Black:1
  
United States:107
England:93
Germany:79
France:60
Italy:26
Ancient Greece:23
Scotland:13
Sweden:12
Russia:11
Netherlands:10
Switzerland:10
Austria:7
Ancient Rome:5
Denmark:5
Ireland:3
(not specified):2
Hungary:2
Wales:2
Portugal:2
Japan:2
(others):19
      John Couch Adams
      Alfred Adler
      Louis Agassiz
      Georg Agricola
      George Biddell Airy
      al-Razi
      Leon Battista Alberti
      Kurt Alder
      Prospero Alpini
      Guillaume Amontons
      André-Marie Ampère
      Roald Amundsen
      Anaxagoras
      Anaximander
      Anaximenes of Miletus
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(463 names omitted for brevity)
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      C. T. R. Wilson
      Adolf Windaus
      Friedrich Wöhler
      William Hyde Wollaston
      Robert B. Woodward
      Christopher Wren
      Orville Wright
      Wilbur Wright
      Xenophanes
      Chen Ning Yang
      Hideki Yukawa
      Pieter Zeeman
      Ferdinand von Zeppelin
      Karl Ziegler
      Richard Zsigmondy



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