SCI 100 - Finding Biographical Information about Multicultural Professionals in the Sciences

Purdue Libraries Online Biography Databases

Biography and Genealogy Master Index

This database indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world.

Biography Resource Center

This database combines biographies from several reference sources as well as full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender.

Selected Web Sites

I found the following web sites by doing Google searches on the phrases such as (scientists biography "african american"), (scientists biography minorit?), (scientists biography "native american"), etc. Note: If you run these searches, you can drop the parentheses!

SACNAS Biography Project
The Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science presents a collection of brief biographies of Chicano/Latino and Native American Scientists.

Mathematicians of the African Diaspora
Professor Scott William of the University of Buffalo maintains this site of information, including profiles of 450 Black mathematicians, Black women in math, and the greatest Black mathematicians of all time.

JustGarciaHill: A Virtual Community for Minorities in Science, Biography
“JustGarciaHill is a portal to advance the professional development of minorities underrepresented in science.... The JGH Biography project highlights the contributions of minorities to science."

The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
“Profiled here are African American men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science and engineering.” This site includes includes biographical information about African American biochemists, biologists, chemists, phyicists, and scientists from many other disciplines.

Minority Biosketches
This site, which is maintained by the American Physiological Society, includes links to various sources on African American, Hispanic American, and Native American physiologists and scientists.

 

The guest lecturer for SCI 100 on Sept. 27th, 2007 was Prof. Jane Kinkus, head of the Mathematical Sciences Library. You can contact Jane at 4-2856 or jkinkus at purdue.edu.