Scientists Last updated 030602

Before visiting these sites, be sure to already know something about your scientist.  Start with an encyclopedia.  Here is http://www.iconn.org/ .  This resource contains encyclopedias.  Try your search in the Discovering Collection and Wilson Biographies.   If you can't find your scientist here, check a print version before using the sites below.

General Biography Sites

Biography.com

Biotech Chronicles

Homework Center-Biographies

Physics Web - Web links of famous scientists

Specific Biography Sites

Luis Alvarez
http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/Museum/alv.html

Robert Ballard
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/ballard.htm

Jacqueline Cochran
http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/cochran1.htm

Jacques Cousteau
http://www.incwell.com/Biographies/Cousteau.html

Jane Goodall
http://www.janegoodall.org/

Matthew Henson (Click on "Main Site Directory")
http://www.matthewhenson.com/matt2.htm
http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/henson.htm

Shirley Ann Jackson
http://www.rensselaer.edu/dept/NewsComm/Magazine/March99/jackson.html

Margaret Mead
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/expeditions/treasure_fossil/Treasures/Margaret_Mead/mead.html

John Muir
http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/

Isaac Newton
http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/lectures/newton.html
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Newton.html

Ellen Ochoa
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/ochoa.html

Joanne Simpson
http://webserv.gsfc.nasa.gov/ESD/jsimpson.html

Alexander von Humboldt
http://geography.tqn.com/education/geography/library/weekly/aa020298.htm

Dimitri Mendeleev
http://www.chem.msu.su/eng/misc/mendeleev/welcome.html