Subject Guide: Scientist Biographies & Scientific Societies
- Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BioBase). Search this database to determine if a biography has been written and where it was published. Then search the Libraries Catalog to determine if we have the book or journal in which the biography appeared.
- African-Americans in the Sciences
- Mathematicians
- Biologists
- National Inventors
- Print material available in the UF Libraries is listed below.
Scientists
- Current / Living Scientists
- American Men and Women of Science
- McGraw-Hill Modern Scientists and Engineers
- National Leaders of American Conservation
- Naturalists Directory & Almanac (International)
- Who's Who in Science and Engineering
- Also - refer to association directories for current lists of scientists.
- Historical / Deceased Scientists
- American Men and Women of Science [Previous editions]
- American Malacologists
- Bibliography of American Natural History: Pioneer Century, 1769-1865
- Biographical Dictionary of American Science: The 17th-19th Centuries
- Biographical Dictionary of Scientists
- Biographical Index to American Science: The 17th Century to 1920
- Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
- Biographical Memoirs [National Academy of Sciences, U.S.]
- Blacks in Science and Medicine
- Compendium of the Biographical Literature on Deceased Entomologists
- Concise Dictionary of Scientific Biography
- Dictionary of American Biography
- Dictionary of Scientific Biography
- Directory of British Scientists
- Geographers Biobibliographical Studies
- Historical Catalogue of Scientists and Scientific Books
- Leaders in American Science
- National Leaders of American Conservation
- Nobel Prize Winners
- Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society
- Prominent Scientists of Continental Europe
- Who's Who in Science in Europe
- Who's Who of Nobel Prize Winners 1901-1990
- Women in Chemistry and Physics
- Women in Science
- Women Scientists from Antiquity to the Present
- World Who's Who in Science
- Also - refer to journals in the subject specialties for obituraries.
Societies
- Current
- Encyclopedia of Associations
- Scientific and Technical Organizations and Agencies Directory
- World of Learning
- World Guide to Scientific Associations and Learned Societies
- Historical
- Bibliography of American Natural History: Pioneer Century, 1769-1865
- Handbook of Learned Societies and Institutions: America
- Handbook of Scientific and Technical Societies and Institutions of the United States and Canada
- Manual of Public Libraries, Institutions, and Societies in the United States and British Provinces of North America
- Scientific Societies in the United States
