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V. Interesting Scientific Stories & Profiles or Biographies of Famous Scientists

  • What many believe is the ultimate that any scientist can achieve—the Nobel Prize.  Many of the laureates have their biography or autobiography on this site.

  • Science.ca —a Canadian website with profiles and anecdotes on well-known Canadian scientists.

  • * in-cites—contains interviews and essays about scientists that have been cited frequently, which has often been associated with the discovery of an important result.

  • Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography—A comprehensive website with lots of scientific biographies that you can search, under such categories as branch of science and nationality, among others.

  • Famous Scientists—another useful website that has links that integrate the history of science with famous scientists.

  • Reflections in biochemistry - highlights some of the major discoveries in the past century in a more personal style from the point of view of major biochemists in the past century

 

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