Biographical Resources

Highlights a different Amercian inventor each week with a biographical sketch. Profiles from previous weeks are searchable. From MIT.

Biographical sketches of the great inventors of the United States and the world.

Encyclopedia from the World of Science allows visitors to explore and research scientific figures alphabetically, by branch of science.

Highlights the contributions of African American men and women who are chemists, biologists, inventors, engineers and mathematicians. Last updated in 2007.

Provides biographical information and photos of current astronauts, management astronauts, astronaut candidates, former astronauts, international astronauts, and cosmonauts.

A collection of over 1,000 biographies of mathematicians from the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.