Galileo Galilei
Astronomer and Physicist

1564 -1642
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Barr, Ernest Scott. An index to biographical fragments in unspecialized scientific journals. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1973.
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A Biographical dictionary of scientists. Fourth edition. Edited by Trevor I. Williams. Glasgow: Harper Collins, 1994.
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The Biographical dictionary of scientists. Gen ed. David Abbott. New York: P. Edrick Books, 1983-1986

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Biographical encyclopedia of scientists. Edited by John Daintith. Second edition. Philadelphia: Institute of Physics, 1994.
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Biographical encyclopedia of scientists. Edited by Richard Olson, associate editor, Roger Smith. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1998. 5 volumes.
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The Cambridge dictionary of scientists. David Millar and others. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996
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Cortada, James. Historical dictionary of data processing-- biographies. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.
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Dictionary of American medical biography. Edited by Martin Kaufman, Stuart Galishoff, and Todd L. Savitt. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1984.
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Dictionary of scientific biography. New York, Scribner 1970-.
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Distinguished African American scientists of the 20th century. James H. Kessler and others. Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1996.
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Elliott, Clark A. Biographical dictionary of American science: the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979.
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Elliott, Clark. Biographical index to American science: the seventeenth century to 1920. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. Supplements the 1979 edition, above.
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Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A historical catalogue of scientists and scientific books from the earliest times to the close of the nineteenth century. New York: Garland Publishing, 1984.
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Howsam, Leslie. Scientists since 1660: a bibliography of biographies. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997.
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Lee, J. A. N. Computer pioneers. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1995.
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Nobel laureates in chemistry, 1901-1992. Edited by Laylin K. James. Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society/Chemical Heritage Foundation, 1993.
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Oglive, Marilyn Bailey. Women in science: antiquity through the nineteenth century: a bigraphical dictionary with annotated bibliography. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1986.
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Prominent scientists: an index to collective biographies. Compiled by Paul Pelletier. Third edition. New York: Neal-Schuman, 1994.
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Smith, Roger. Biographies of scientists: an annotated bibliography. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 1998.
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Who's who in theology and science: an international biographical and bibliographical guide to individuals and organizations interested in the interaction of theology and science. Compiled and edited by the John Templeton Foundation. New York: Continuum, 1996.
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World who's who in science: a biographical dictionary of notable scientists from antiquity to the present. Edited by Allen G. Debus. Chicago: Marquis-Who's Who, Inc., 1968.
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Women in science

Bailey, Martha J. American women in science: 1950 to the present: a biographical dictionary. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1998.
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Bailey, Martha J. American women in science: a biographical dictionary. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 1994.
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The biographical dictionary of women in science: pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century. Two volumes. Edited by Joyce Harvey and Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie. New York: Routledge, 2000.
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Creese, Mary R. S. Ladies in the laboratory?: American and British women in science, 1800-1900: a survey of their contributions to research. With contributions by Thomas M. Creese. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 1998.
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Notable women in the life sciences: a biographical dictionary. Edited by Benjamin F. Shearer and Barbara S. Shearer. Westport: Greenwood Press,1996.
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Notable Women in Mathematics: A Biographical Dictionary. Edited by Charlene Morrow and Teri Perl. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1998.
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Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey. Women in science: antiquity through the nineteenth century: a biographical dictionary with annotated bibliography. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1986.
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Siegel, Patricia Joan. Women in the scientific search: an American bio-bibliography, 1724-1979. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1985.
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Warren, Wini. Black women scientists in the United States. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.
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Women in chemistry and physics: a biobibliographic sourcebook. Edited by Louise S. Grinstein, Rose K. Rose, and Miriam H. Rafailovich. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1993.
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Women in the biological sciences: a biobibliographic sourcebook. Edited by Louise S. Grinstein, Carol A. Biermann and Rose K. Rose. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997.
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