Women >

Several years ago I had a vague interest in looking up the history of women in science.

I don't think I ever had any particular notes, but I'll drop a page here just in case.

• See also Genius women.

Reading ∞

• Dictionary of Scientific Biography - (1970 book)

  • Charles Scribner's Sons (16 volumes + 2 supplementary in 1990)
  • library code [R 509 DIC (squiggly) 1]
  • dead-only
  • impersonal, non-biographical, referential -> cites!
  • omits technology, medicine, behavioural/social sciences, philosophy
    -- unless intrinsically related to the sciences of nature or to mathematics
  • organized by person, not subject

• New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 2008

  • library codes [R REF 509.22 NEW 2008 VOL.1]
  • Charles Scribner's Sons
  • ISBN 10: 0684315599
  • ISBN 13: 9780684315591
  • follows the original editorial policy - natural and formal sciences
  • does not aspire to completeness, only significance
  • has more research on women in science
  • philosophy of science and influences on scientific thought