Science Biography Pathfinder

 

General Information

Linda George

Padua Franciscan High School

Kent State University

Science Biography Project

9th and 11th grades

Science

Science biography

 

Content Information

Brief Summary:  The students will be searching scientist who have been mentioned in their science textbook.  The honors chemistry class will do an additional project in which they create a timeline based on the research topic of their scientists.

Dewey Numbers:  920-926, B

Subject Headings: Scientists – Biography,  Chemists – Biography,  Names of individual scientists,  example – Darwin, Charles

 

Content Categories

Reference

Dictionary of American Biography.  NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1964.  (21 volumes)

Dictionary of World Biography.  Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1998.  (10 volumes)

Current Biography.  NY: H. W. Wilson, 1968-.  (Volumes 1968- Present)

Earth Science for Students.  NY: Macmillan, 1999. (4 volumes)

Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather.  NY: Oxford University Press, 1996.  (2 volumes)

Encyclopedia of World Biography.  Detroit, MI:  Gale, 1998.  (19 volumes)

Macmillan Encyclopedia of Chemistry.  NY: Macmillan, 1997.  (4 volumes)

Macmillan Encyclopedia of Physics.  NY: Macmillan, 1996.  (4 volumes)

Notable Black American Scientists.  Detroit, MI: Gale, 1999.

Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists.  Detroit, MI: Gale Research Inc., 1995.  (5         volumes) 

Notable Women Scientists.  Detroit, MI: Gale Group, 1999.

Oakes, Elizabeth H.  A to Z of  Chemists.  NY: Facts on File, 2002.

Yount, Lisa.  A to Z of Women in Science and Math.  NY: Facts on File, 1999.

Non-Fiction Books

Adair, Gene.  Thomas Alva Edison: Inventing the Electric Age.  NY: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Barron, Rachel Stiffler.  Lise Meitner: Discoverer of Nuclear Fission.  Greensboro, NC:            Morgan Reynolds, 2000.

Bernstein, Jeremy.  Albert Einstein and the Frontiers of Physics.  NY: Oxford University            Press, 1996.

Christianson, Gale E.  Isaac Newton and the Scientific Revolution.  NY: Oxford            University Press, 1996.

Cooper, Dan.  Enrico Fermi and the Revolutions of Modern Physics.  NY: Oxford        University Press, 1999.

Curtis, Robert H.  Great Lives: Medicine.  NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1993.

Edelson, Edward.  Frances Crick and James Watson and the Building Blocks of Life.    NY: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Evans, J. Edward.  Charles Darwin: Revolutionary Biologist.  Minneapolis, MN: Lerner             Publications, 1993.

Hager, Tom.  Linus Pauling and the Chemistry of Life.  NY: Oxford University Press,    1998.

McGrayne, Sharon Bertach.  Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and          Momentous Discoveries.  NY: Birch Lane Press Book, 1993.

Oleksy, Walter.  Hispanic-American Scientists.  NY: Facts on File, 1998.

Parachoff, Naomi.  Alexander Graham Bell: Making Connections.  NY: Oxford             University Press, 1996.

Parachoff, Naomi.  Madame Curie and the Science of Radioactivity.  NY: Oxford         University Press, 1996.

Pflaum, Rosalynd.  Madame Curie and Her Daughter Irene.  Minneapolis, MN:  Lerner             Publications, 1993.

Robbins, Louise E.  Louis Pasteur and the Hidden Worlds of Microbes.  NY: Oxford    University Press, 2001.

Russell, Colin A.  Michael Fraraday: Physics and Faith.  NY: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Spangenburg, Ray.  Niels Bohr: Gentle Genius of Denmark.  NY: Facts on File, 1995.

Stefoff, Rebecca.  Charles Darwin and the Evolution Revolution.  NY: Oxford University           Press, 1996.

Voelkel, James R.  Johannes Kepler and the New Astronomy.  NY: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Yount, Lisa.  Asian-America Scientists.  NY: Facts on File, 1998.

Yount, Lisa.  Contemporary Women Scientists.  NY: Facts on File, 1994.

Yount, Lisa.  Twentieth Century Women Scientist.  NY: Facts on File, 1996.

Infohio Electronic Resources

Access Science

Encyclopedia Britannica Online

America National Biography

Web Sites

4000 Years of Women in Science

            http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/4000WS.html

 

The History of Chemistry

            http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/ci/1992/

 

The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences

            http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/faces.html

 

Biography.com

            http://www.biography.com