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		The Nobel Prize Internet Archive ^Votes:0 1996 NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED HERE Welcome to the Nobel Prize Internet Archive. You can click on any Nobel category icon below ( literature , physics , chemistry , peace , economics , or physiology & medicine ) to see an annotated, hyperlinked list of all Nobel laureates in that category. And while you are at it, do not forget to check out the Ig Nobel Prizes too! The Nobel Prize Archive is fully interactive. If you have an interesting and useful Internet link about a particular Nobel Laureate, you can add your link instantly to that laureate's home page here at the Archive. We encourage you to add links as often as you like. The educational value of this Archive depends on the contributions and resourcefulness of its users. Want to try it out? Why not roll the dice, and sta Read More Go to Site


		4000 Years of Women in Science Biography Listing ^Votes:0 Biographies These are the women for which we have a some biographical information. We try to update the information quite regularly so we have given you the date of last modification of the file. This is an alphabetical list. You may also access a time-ordered list and now, finally, a field of study ordered list . or biographies in frames Alphabetical Listing Scientist File Last Updated Acca-Lurentia (c. 634 BCE) November 19, 2005 Adams, Elisabeth (19th century) November 09, 2005 Aganice, (circa 1878 BCE) November 09, 2005 Aglaonike, (ancient Greece) November 19, 2005 Agnesi, Maria Gaetana (1718 - 1799) October 08, 1999 Mary Anning (1799 - 1847) November 19, 2005 Arate of Cyrene. (ancient Greece) November 19, 2005 Ardinghelli, Maria Angela (18 century) November 19, 2005 Atkins, Anna (1799 Read More Go to Site

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		Alphabetical Listing ^Votes:0 [ Find out what others are saying about the Nobel Prize Internet Archive ] Alphabetical listing of all Nobel Prize laureates in all categories A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Alphabetical listings by category: Literature Physics Chemistry Peace Economics Physiology and Medicine [ Back to The Nobel Prize Internet Archive ] [ Literature * Peace * Chemistry * Physics * Economics * Medicine ] We always welcome your feedback and comments . Copyright © 1996-2003 Ona Wu. All rights reserved. Read More Go to Site

		Astronaut Biographies: Career Astronauts ^Votes:0 Career Astronauts Career NASA astronauts are those individuals selected by NASA to be members of the NASA astronaut corps. Individuals in this category make up the Space Shuttle crew positions, such as commander, pilot, or mission specialist, or International Space Station crew positions, such as commander or flight engineer. Career astronauts are divided into four categories as follows. Active astronauts are U.S. astronauts who are currently eligible for flight assignment, including those who are assigned to crews. Management astronauts are experienced astronauts who have been promoted to other positions within NASA, or astronauts on special duty assignments or sabbaticals that make them unavailable for direct support to the Astronaut Office. Former astronauts are those who have left NASA Read More Go to Site

		Biographical Dictionary - S9.com ^Votes:0 Welcome, guest! ~ Login ~ Register Home Browse Search Challenge Quick Search: Welcome to the Biographical Dictionary! S9.com was established in 1997. The dictionary covers more than 33,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day. The dictionary can be searched by birth and death dates, positions held, professions, literary and artistic works, achievements, and other keywords. S9.com is a Wikipedia type system and everyone can edit biographies or even make their own . Whether you have a passion for history or simply know an interesting fact about the life of your current idol we invite you to contribute to our free project. Latest Biographies Phair, Elizabeth Clark 1967 - Born on April 16th in New Haven, Connecticut. 1985 -... Kroc, Raymond Albe Read More Go to Site

		Biographies and Autobiographies ^Votes:0 Biographies and Autobiographies Albert, Octavia V. Rogers The House of Bondage Anonymous Memoir of Old Elizabeth, a coloured woman Broughton, V.W. Twenty Year's Experience of a Missionary Brown, Hallie Q. Homespun heroines Brown, Josephine Biography of an American Bondman Burton, Annie L. Memories of childhood's slavery days Delany, Lucy A. From the darkness cometh the light Foote, Julia A.J. A Brand Plucked From the Fire Jacobs, Harriet A. Incidents in the life of a slave girl Keckley, Elizabeth Behind the Scenes Lee, Jarena Religious Experience Mattison, Hiram Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon Plato, Ann Essays Prince, Mary The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave Prince, Nancy A narrative of the life and travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince Rollin, Frank [Frances] A. Life and Public Services Read More Go to Site

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		Classical composer biographies ^Votes:0 Composer biographies Disclaimer This document does not attempt to be a final word on anything. It has always been in a state of flux, and I expect it will continue to be so for a while to come. Some of my information is woefully inadequate (my entry for Schubert read famous song composer for an embarrassingly long time), and a good proportion of the rest is little more than (what I hope is at least reasonably informed) opinion. With the exception of entries provided solely to provide links to other pages, all entries are present because I know something about the composer in question and their works. If a composer is not on these pages, there’s a good chance that while I’ve probably heard of them, I haven’t actually heard any of their compositions. These pages are my own Read More Go to Site

		Classical Music Composers - Music Compositions, biography, Classical CD - A ^Votes:0 The World's Leading Classical Music Label Naxos Worldwide Sites: Choose Country Global Site Australia Canada China Denmark Finland France Germany Hong Kong Japan Korea New Zealand Norway Sweden UK USA E-mail Password Remember Me New Releases \| Artists \| Composers \| Labels \| Music in Movies \| Sets/Series \| News \| Reviews \| Buy Online Composer Artist Composition Title Disc Title Catalogue No. Classical Music Home > Classical Composers List of Classical Music Composers arranged in alphabetical order. B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Ke, Jian (b 4/28/1932) Aagaard, Thorvald (1877-1937) Aagesen, Truid (1593-1625) Aaltoila, Heikki (1905-1992) Aaron, Jack Aaronson, Irving (2/07/1895-5/10/1963) Abbasi, Rez Abdallah, Kamildine (1943-1982) Abderemane, Said Hachim Sidi (b 1942) Read More Go to Site

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		Famous Physicists and Astronomers ^Votes:0 Famous Physicists and Astronomers Niels Bohr Max Born Louis de Broglie Nicolaus Copernicus Marie Curie Paul Dirac Albert Einstein Michael Faraday Enrico Fermi Richard Phillips Feynman Edmond Halley Stephen Hawking Werner Karl Heisenberg Edwin Powell Hubble Lord Kelvin Johannes Kepler Irving Langmuir James Clerk Maxwell Robert Andrews Millikan Sir Isaac Newton Blaise Pascal Wolfgang Ernst Pauli Max Planck Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen Sir Ernest Rutherford Erwin Schroedinger Sir Joseph John Thomson Hideki Yukawa If you want to see all click here The information on this web page was taken from various sources. We do not have copyrigt on it. If you have any questions, please send e-mail to D.Paar at dpaar@phy.hr Read More Go to Site

		Illuminating Lives: Contents ^Votes:0 lluminating ives what is Illuminating Lives? the Curé d'Ars the Dalai Lama Dorothy Day Mohandas K. Gandhi Gandhi's Last Words Gerard Manley Hopkins Joan of Arc Pope John XXIII a Poem by Increase Mather Menachem Mendel of Kotzk John Henry Newman Simeon Stylites Teresa of Avila Thérèse of Lisieux Francis Thompson The Hound of Heaven The Poppy Chidiock Tichbourne Tichbourne's Elegy Tomás de Torquemada: A Regrettable Life The Secret Jews Bibliography copyright © 1998 Beth Randall Read More Go to Site

		Indexes of Biographies ^Votes:0 Indexes of Biographies Click below to go to either an alphabetical or chronological index. Full indexes are available, but these files are quite large (about 200K). Alphabetical indexes A B C D E F G H IJ K L M N O PQ R S T UV W XYZ Chronological indexes -500 AD 500-999 1000-1499 1800-1819 1820-1829 1830-1839 1840-1849 1850-1859 1900-1904 1905-1909 1910-1914 1500-1599 1600-1649 1650-1699 1860-1864 1865-1869 1870-1874 1875-1879 1880-1884 1915-1919 1920-1929 1930-1939 1700-1749 1750-1779 1780-1799 1885-1889 1890-1894 1895-1899 1940 - present Female mathematicians Recent changes in the archive Full Alphabetical index Full Chronological index Enter a word or phrase: Main index History Topics Index Birthplace Maps Famous curves index Mathematicians of the day Anniversaries for the year Chronolo Read More Go to Site

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		LII Supreme Court Collection: Current Supreme Court Justices ^Votes:0 skip navigation Search Law School Search Cornell LII / Legal Information Institute home search sitemap donate Supreme Court collection main page about search subscribe Current U.S. Supreme Court Justices Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Samuel Alito Stephen Breyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg Anthony Kennedy Antonin Scalia David Hackett Souter John Paul Stevens Clarence Thomas about us help © copyright Read More Go to Site

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		Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries ^Votes:0 Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Available here are accounts of the lives and works of seventeenth and eighteenth century mathematicians (and some other scientists), adapted from A Short Account of the History of Mathematics by W. W. Rouse Ball (4th Edition, 1908). The ordering of the mathematicians and scientists below is approximately chronological. A separate index is provided which lists these people in alphabetical order . RenÉ Descartes (1596 - 1650) Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598 - 1647) Pierre de Fermat (1601 - 1665) John Wallis (1616 - 1703) William, Viscount Brouncker (1620 - 1684) Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662) Christian Huygens (1629 - 1695) Isaac Barrow (1630 - 1677) James Gregory (1638 - 1675) Some Contemporaries of Descartes, Fermat, Pascal and Huygens: C Read More Go to Site

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		Notable Women Ancestors: Women's Biographies ^Votes:0 Note on the banner & identity of women in it. This site generously Hosted by RootsWeb ANNOUNCING: Notable Women Ancestors, The NEWSLETTER! Honored to be part of The History Channel On-Line You are the visitor to this Page since April, 1997. Last updated 4/27/07 These pages, as well as my genealogy site, are dedicated to my mother, Dorothy Williams Behling (1915-1990) FEATURED WOMAN OF THE MONTH Sarah Winnemucca NEW THIS MONTH Mary Peck Butterworth - Notorious Dessie Elizabeth Hayter Leaming - Heroines Edna (Wean, Mountain) Williams - Notorious Abijah Collins - Native Americans Lucy Louise Mercier Wyrwas - Entertainers Eliza Chandler White - Educators ANNOUNCING: Notable Women Ancestors the Newsletter , now available. Click here for details. NO-TA-BLE , adj. 1. Worthy of note or notic Read More Go to Site

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		People ^Votes:0 Who made the first star map? When did people know that the Earth was round? When were sunspots discovered? The links to the right will lead you to biographies of scientists who lived at different times through history. Discover the people who made science history! Ancient Epoch (before 700) Middle Ages (700-1400) Renaissance (1400-1650) Age of Enlightenment (1650-1850) Modern Era (1850-1950) Today's Scientists Astronauts The Observatory (short video) Windows People People Coloring Book People's Web Last modified May 1, 2006 by Travis Metcalfe. The source of this material is Windows to the Universe , at http://www.windows.ucar.edu/ at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). ©1995-1999, 2000 The Regents of the University of Michigan; ©2000-06 University Corporation for At Read More Go to Site

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		The Jewish Virtual Library - Biographies ^Votes:0 [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] [Y] [Z] Biographies of Jewish Women Biographies of Rabbis & Religious Figures Bibliography of Autobiography & Biography Jewish Fashion Icons Jewish Nobel Prize Winners Jews in Sports A Aaron Aaron Aaronsohn Sarah Aaronsohn Isaac Abalia Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) Mohammed Abbas Khaled Abdelwahhab Paula Abdul Fahd bin Abdul Aziz Faisal bin Abdul Aziz Khalid bin Abdul Aziz Saud bin Abdul Aziz Hisham Abdalraziq King Abdullah bin al-Hussein Yasser Abed Rabbo (Abu Bashar) Abel Benvenida Abrabanel Judah Abrabanel Abraham Harold Abrahams Cal Abrams Elliott Abrams Isaac ben Judah Abravanel Alexei A. Abrikosov Ziad Abu Amr Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia Meir Abulafia Abdul Karim Abu Salah Yossef Abuksis Samuel be Read More Go to Site

		The Mississippi Writers Page ^Votes:0 The Internet Guide to Mississippi Writers Presented by the Department of English at the University of Mississippi -- Articles Now Available -- COMPLETE LIST OF WRITERS Alexander, Margaret Walker (1915-1998) Ambrose, Stephen E. (1936-2002) Armistead, John (1941- ) Autry, James A. (1933- ) Bahr, Howard (1946- ) Bailey, Ben E. (1932- ) Baldwin, Joseph Glover (1815-1864) Barr, Nevada (1952- ) Barthelme, Frederick (1943- ) Barthelme, Steve (1947- ) Bass, Rick (1958- ) Berry, D. C. (1942- ) Black, Patti Carr (1934- ) Bonner, Katherine Sherwood (1849-1883) Bosco, Joseph (1948- ) Brown, Larry (1951- ) Burnham, Carl Campbell, Will D. (1924- ) Capers, Charlotte (1913-1996) Carsley, Anne (1935- ) Claiborne, J. F. H. (1807-1884) Clower, Jerry (1926-1998) Cobb, Joseph Beckham (1819-1858) Cohen, Edward Read More Go to Site

		USA Gymnastics Online: Athlete bios ^Votes:0 USA Gymnastics Online: Athlete bios Your browser cannot display frames. Please switch to one of the following non-frame pages: Index of USA Athlete biographies Index of USA Coach biographies Index of International biographies Athletes USA Gymnastics Online home USA Gymnastics Online Site Search Read More Go to Site

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		Women Mathematicians ^Votes:0 Biographies of W omen Mathematicians Home \| Alphabetical Index \| Chronological Index \| Resources \| Credits \| Search Welcome to the web site for biographies of women in mathematics. These pages are part of an on-going project at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia, to illustrate the numerous achievements of women in the field of mathematics. Here you can find biographical essays or comments on the women mathematicians profiled on this site, as well as additional resources about women in mathematics. Each time this page is reloaded, a randomly selected photo is displayed to the left (if Javascript is enabled). Click on the image to go to the profile of that woman. We also welcome contributions of biographical information or essays from those outside Agnes Scott College. If you are intere Read More Go to Site

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