Dictionary of Scientific Biography

The Dictionary of Scientific Biography is a book published in English lexicon of scientists biographies ( from the natural sciences and mathematics ), which appeared between 1970 and 1980 in 16 volumes by Charles Scribner and Sons in New York. It was published by Charles Coulston Gillispie for the American Council of Learned Societies. At the biographies of many well-known historian of science were involved.

In Volume 15, a supplementary volume appeared with supplementary biographies, Bd.16 was the band index. 1990 published two more supplementary volumes. In 1981 a einbändiger band with cutouts ( Concise dictonary of Scientific Biography, published in the second edition supplemented 2001).

Were included scientists from the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, earth sciences. Other scientists (like engineers, doctors, sociologists, philosophers ) were included only if they had a connection to science and mathematics. Each article is provided with references and sometimes very extensive. Many of the biographies are standard references for the individual scientist. Even non-Western scientists (eg from Asia, the Islamic countries ) are represented with biographies, but under-represented due to the then lower state of research, such as the editors wrote in the preface.

In 1981 the Dictionary of Scientific Biography, the Dartmouth Medal of the American Library Association as an outstanding business lexicon.

2007 appeared in the Scribner's " New Dictionary of Scientific Biography" in 8 volumes, edited by Noretta Koertge. It contains 500 new entries on deceased after 1950 scientists, 50 entries on scientists who had been forgotten in the old edition, and amendments to the articles of the old dictionary, so that the " New Dictionary" is designed to supplement reading the old dictionary. Additions are scientists from psychology, anthropology, and partly economics and sociology.

Also in 2007, was an electronic version of "Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography" published as part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library. It contains the texts of the old printed editions with new common index.

Expenditure

  • Gillispie (Editor). Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970-1980. 16 vols ISBN 0-684-10114-9, Supplement II, editor Frederic Lawrence Holmes, 2 vols, 1990. ISBN 0-684-16962-2 (ISBN of the total output ).
  • Concise Dictionary of Scientific Biography., New York, Scribner, 1981. ISBN 0 - 684-16650 -X.
  • Koertge (Editor) New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 8 volumes, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2007, ISBN 0-684-31320-0.
  • Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2007 (E -Book). ISBN 0-684-31559-9.
  • Biographical dictionary of mathematics, 4 volumes, 1991, Scribner's, Collier, Maxwell Macmillan International ( special edition with the biographies of mathematicians Dictionary, 3000 pages)
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