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Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography

REFERENCE WORK

Edited by Roy Porter. This is listed as the Second Edition, which combines six volumes previously published as The Biographical Dictionary of Scientists -- Biologists and Chemists, 1983, Astronomers and Physicists, 1984, and Engineers and Inventors, Mathematicians, 1985. Published in one single volume of 891 pages, Helicon Publishing, 1994.

People in this reference:172
Those presently living:12
Those deceased:160
  
White:165
Black:2
Hispanic:1
Asian/Indian:1
Asian:1
Multiracial:1
Middle Eastern:1
  
England:47
United States:40
France:25
Germany:23
Ancient Greece:8
Sweden:5
Scotland:5
Italy:5
Denmark:4
Austria:3
South Africa:1
Japan:1
Ancient Rome:1
Poland:1
Australia:1
Switzerland:1
Norway:1
      Niels Henrik Abel
      John Couch Adams
      Alfred Adler
      Louis Agassiz
      Georg Agricola
      George Biddell Airy
      Kurt Alder
      Hannes Alfvén
      Luis W. Alvarez
      André-Marie Ampère
      Anaximander
      Carl David Anderson
      Philip W. Anderson
      Anders Jonas Ångström
      Edward Victor Appleton
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(142 names omitted for brevity)
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      Léon Foucault
      Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
      William A. Fowler
      James Franck
      Benjamin Franklin
      Augustin-Jean Fresnel
      Sigmund Freud
      Otto Robert Frisch
      Robert Fulton
      Abraham de Moivre
      Ben R. Mottelson
      James Rainwater
      James Watson
      Maurice Wilkins
      Geoffrey Wilkinson



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