Women: Invisible Web Databases

• Female Mathematicians  
  MacTutor: School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
• Biographies of Women Mathematicians  
  Agnes Scott College 
• Distinguised Woman of Past and Present: click on subject (mathematics, biology) or alphabetically 
  collected by Danuta Bois
• 4000 Years of Women in Science  
  Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama
• Women in Science and Technology: Time Line of Historical Highlights - by date with links to sites 
  APA

Women: Smaller Lists - 20c.

• Women Nobel Prize Laureates - 11 biographies
• Nobel Prize Internet Archive
• Nobel Prize Women in Science - free 2001 e-book - 15 biographies
  National Academies Press
• Women in Computer Science - 18 biographies 
  Computing Research Association Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research
• Women in Science - 16 biographies
  San Diego Super Computer Center
• Women
  Oak Ridge National Lab, 2000
• Women of NASA; Profiles
• Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics  
  UCLA, Physics and Astronomy
• Contributions of Women  
  U.S. Naval Observatory
• Women in Science at the MBL  
  Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
• Powering the Electrical Revolution: Women and the Communications Industry  
  IEEE Virtual Museum
• Black Women in Mathematics  
  Dr. Scott W. Williams, Professor of Mathematics, State University of NY, Buffalo

People of Color

• The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences  
  Louisiana State University Libraries
• Mathematicians of the African Diaspora  
  Dr. Scott W. Williams, Professor of Mathematics, State University of NY, Buffalo
• Muslim Scientists before European Renaissance, 700 - 1500 C.E.
  Dr. Zahoor & Dr. Haq - Muslim authors
• SACNAS Biography Project  
  Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science

Men and Women: Invisible Web Databases

• Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography - indexed by math or branch of science, gender/minority status, historical period, nationality, prize winners.
• Alphabetical, chronological, search
  MacTutor: School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
• Catalog of members of the scientific community during the 16th and 17th centuries
  Professor Richard S. Westfall, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
• The History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology: A Culturally Affirming View  
  SJSU Virtual Museum

Men and Women: Smaller Lists - 20c.

• A Science Odyssey; People and Discoveries - a few mathematicians 
  KQED/PBS TV
• Mathographies - 23 biographies
  Bellevue Community College, WA 
• America's Best Science and Medicine  
  CNN/Time
• Profiles in Science  
  National Library of Medicine
• Archived Profiles of People in Careers using Math Applications
  American Mathematical Society
• NASA Astronauts Biographies
  Johnson Space Center
• High Tech Revolutionaries  
  The Tech Museum of Innovation
• Profiles
  Mathematics Careers Bulletin Board, American Mathematical Society
• Super Scientists; A Gallery of Energy Pioneers
  California Energy Commission
• History of Physics - multimedia bios of physicists, photo archive
  American Institute of Physics 

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