University of California at Berkeley

This site includes biographies of twenty-four prominent Canadian scientists, with mini-bios for over a hundred more

Biologists, botanists, geneticists, medical scientists, microbiologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and zoologists

Provides biographical information on leading contributors to science. Presents the information at three levels of difficulty and by time period.

"Franklin & His Friends" presents portraits of men who, regardless of their actual vocation, shared a passion for science. Their portraits document their scientific accomplishments, in the pursuit of which they invested time, energy, and money.

A databank consisting of 120 entries about 20th century scientists and their stories.

Provides short autobiographies of the Nobel laureates in medicine during the 20th century.

Accomplishments of Chicano/Latino and Native American scientists.

This list emphasizes women of the past – mainly pre-20^th century.

Search by branch of science.

American geneticist and microbiologist who received the Nobel prize in 1958 for his work in bacterial genetics.

 Joseph Leidy

Best known as the Father of American Vertebrate Paleontology, Joseph Leidy also pioneered the fields of Parasitology and Protozoology, and was the preeminent Anatomist of his time.

Biographical information about Filippo Pacini who discovered the organism that causes cholera.

This site is devoted to the life and times of Dr. John Snow
(1813-1858), a legendary figure in the history of public health,
epidemiology and anesthesiology.

Biographical information about Leonardo da Vinci. There are also video and audio pieces available using the Quicktime plug-in.

Florence Nightingale Museum

Lefalophodon

An Informal History of Evolutionary Biology Web Site
University of California at
Santa Barbara

Images from the History of Medicine (IHM