General:

• The Nobel Prize: Listing of all Nobel laureates, essays, and information about their work. Karolinska Institutet, SWEDEN.
• Access Excellence Classic Collection: A series of articles describing important events and "turning-points" in science.
• 4000 Years of Women in Science

• History of Astronomy: Historical events and biographies of ancient and modern astronomers.

• History of Biomedicine: Karolinska Institute, SWEDEN.

• Classical Chemistry: Papers and a historial review of important concepts in chemistry, both introductory and advanced.

• The History of Mathematics: From the ancient Egyptians to more recent topics.
• * The Museum of HP Calculators: The history of adding machines, with images and vacuum tubes.. from slide rules to electronic tools.

• History of Physics: At the American Institute of Physics, has extensive online exhibits, images and texts.

• Marie Curie: Winner of two nobel prizes for her work with radioactivity.
• Edison National Historic Site: Information concerning America's most famous inventor.
• Albert Einstein Online: Images. writings and biographical information.
• Feynman Online: The works and wit of physicist Richard Feynman.
• The Galileo Project: Biographical information concerning the astrnomer's life and work. Also discusses conflicts with the Catholic church.
• Sir Isaac Newton: in the U.K.
• Louis Pasteur: "Father of immunology and microbiology."

Books

• Circles: Fifty Round_Trips Through History, Technology, Science and Culture: by James Burke (ISBN: 074320008X). Authored by the man known for the "Connections" television series, provides the usual quirky and serendipidous trips through the history of science & technology.
• Longitude: by Dava Sobel (ISBN: 0802713122). Subtitled, "The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time."
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (ISBN: 0684813785). A detailed account of the physics and people involved in producing the atomic bomb.
• The Microbe Hunters: Paul de Kruif (ISBN - 0-1560-0262-0; 1926) A historical perspective of many important discoveries in bacteriology from Leeuwenhoek to Pasteur.
  

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