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Australian Science Archives Project

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  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Earth Sciences
  • Images
  • Life Sciences
  • Links
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Physical Sciences
  • Primary Source
  • University
URL: 

http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/

Author: 
University of Melbourne - Department of History
Excerpt: 

On 3 May 1999 the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre of the University of Melbourne was formed to sustain the academic, heritage and research activities of the Australian Science Archives Project.

Annotation: 

Archive of Australian scientific and corporate material. Contains biographies of over 3,000 Australian scientists as well as listings of documents available for order and a Cabinet of Curiosities-an interpretive creation about Australia's scientific history. Not updated since 1999.

Caltech Archives

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
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  • Earth Sciences
  • Images
  • Life Sciences
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  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
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URL: 

http://archives.caltech.edu//

Author: 
California Institute of Technology
Excerpt: 

The Institute Archives serves as the collective memory of Caltech by preserving the papers, documents, artifacts and pictorial materials that tell the school's history, from 1891 to the present. Researchers will also find here a wealth of sources for the history of science and technology worldwide, stretching from the time of Copernicus to today.

Annotation: 

The Institute Archives serves as Caltech's collective memory, preserving the papers, documents, artifacts and pictorial materials that tell the school's history, from 1891 to the present. Holdings include manuscript, photographic, print and audio-visual materials, oral histories, fine art and historic artifacts. Many of the photographs are available in digital format (thumbnail and full size) through the photo archive. The site also includes information about using the physical archive, online versions of archive exhibits and facts about the Cal Tech archive.

Dittrick Medical History Center

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Images
  • Life Sciences
  • Links
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Museum
  • Primary Source
URL: 

http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/dittrick/home.htm

Author: 
Case Western University
Excerpt: 

The Dittrick Medical History Center is dedicated to the study of the medical past through a distinguished collection of rare books, museum artifacts, archives, and images. The Dittrick originated as part of the Cleveland Medical Library Association (est. 1894)
and today functions as an interdisciplinary study center within the College of Arts and Sciences of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Annotation: 

The Dittrick Medical History Center is dedicated to the study of the medical past through a distinguished collection of rare books, museum artifacts, archives, and images. This web site includes images of exhibits and scientific instruments in the Dittrick Museum, images and annotations of samples from the 60,000 volume rare book collection, information about the archival collections and image collections. In addition, the site also hosts two virtual exhibits, "Haunting Images: Photography, Dissection and Medical Students," and "Smallpox: A City on the Edge of Disaster." Finally the site includes a section about research aids including on-line catalogues and bibliographical information.

Bioscience and Biotechnology: Resources for Historical Research

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Engineering
  • Images
  • Library/Archive
  • Life Sciences
  • Primary Source
  • University
  • Video
URL: 

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/Biotech/index.html

Author: 
Bancroft Library and Berkely Multimedia Resource Center - UC Berkely
Excerpt: 

The Web site was constructed by staff in The Bancroft Library and the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. Its core resources draw on the Library's extensive collections of archives and oral histories, as well as resources created by and for the landmark symposium "Biotechnology at 25: Perspectives on History, Science, and Society" held on campus 12-13 March 1999 to celebrate the discovery of gene-cloning technology (recombinant DNA).

Our first phase of development was completed in October 1999; it was a prototype including a sample of available resources and a fully indexed streaming video of one of the Symposium participants, Stanley N. Cohen. We are seeking funding to enrich the prototype with high quality indexed video and audio files representing a broad selection of scientists and others who participated in the Symposium or are represented in the archival and oral history collections of the Library.

We will continue to build the Web site as we acquire and process materials, with a goal of providing a unique collection of primary materials for scholars in secondary and higher education and for the general public.

Annotation: 

In addition to basic materials such as a glossary, a links page and an introduction to the project, this site includes an online exhibit that focuses on significant bioscientists, video from the symposium, and digitized oral histories. The site also includes an internal search engine which should help users to move quickly through the information.

Edgar Fahs Smith Collection of Images of Scientists, Laboratories, and Scientific Apparatus

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Earth Sciences
  • Images
  • Library/Archive
  • Life Sciences
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Physical Sciences
  • Primary Source
  • University
URL: 

http://www.library.upenn.edu/etext/collections/smith/index.html

Author: 
Lynne Farrington
Excerpt: 

This collection contains over 3,000 images of scientists, laboratories, and scientific apparatus. A selection of these prints, engravings, and photographs is reproduced on this site. Photographs of any of these images may be ordered from an on-line order form.

History of Microbiology Archival Projects

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Images
  • Life Sciences
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Primary Source
  • Professional Association
URL: 

http://HISTMICRO.YALE.EDU/

Author: 
William C. Summers-American Society of Microbiology
Excerpt: 

This "experimental history project" so to speak, is part of a program supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to explore the possibilities of using the internet to increase the collection of archival material in the history of recent science to supplement and complement expensive and time consuming oral history interviews and preparation of autobiographical memoirs. This site includes three projects devoted to topics in microbiology being developed and maintained through a grant to the American Society for Microbiology. Parallel projects are being developed by the Society for Neuroscience and the American Society for Virology.

Annotation: 

This site provides essays, timelines, and personal recollections of the history of research on plasmids, extremophiles and second generation antibiotics. Currently, only the plasmid portion of the site is fully developed. A timeline of plasmid research outlines major breakthroughs from 1903-1969, a glossary covers most of the important terms related to the field, and an extensive bibliography covers published papers on plasmids from the 1940s and 50s. Microbiologists and others involved with plasmid research can add their comments and recollections to the site's archive. In addition, the site contains links to other sites and professional associations interested in the history of microbiology.

Caltech Archives Photonet

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Early Modern (15th-18th Century)
  • Earth Sciences
  • Images
  • Library/Archive
  • Life Sciences
  • Links
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Middle Ages (5th-15th Century)
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Physical Sciences
  • Primary Source
  • University
URL: 

http://archives.caltech.edu//photoNet.html

Author: 
California Institute of Technology Archives
Excerpt: 

PhotoNet is an online database containing thousands of images from the Archives' collection of visual material.

Annotation: 

This online database of over 3,000 images from the California Institute of Technology's archive of visual materials illustrates the history of science from the Scientific Revolution to the present. Photographs, fine prints, book illustrations, paintings, and architectural drawings of various scientists and their projects, including Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, George Ellery Hale, and Linus Pauling are found in the database. Images are accompanied by a brief (roughly 150-word) biography and, in many cases, a photograph or other image of the scientist(s) involved in the project. The site can be browsed through two sub-categories, "Science and Technological artifacts" and "Rare Books," as well as a keyword search by scientist name or subject. This site provides an ideal tool for research on the history of science and prominent scientific figures.

Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Earth Sciences
  • Images
  • Life Sciences
  • Links
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Physical Sciences
  • Professional Association
URL: 

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

Author: 
Mitchell C. Brown, Mathematics and Physics Librarian, Fine Library, Princeton University
Excerpt: 

Profiled here are African American men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science and engineering. The accomplishments of the past and present can serve as pathfinders to present and future engineers and scientists. African American chemists, biologists, inventors, engineers, and mathematicians have contributed in both large and small ways that can be overlooked when chronicling the history of science. By describing the scientific history of selected African American men and women we can see how the efforts of individuals have advanced human understanding in the world around us.

Annotation: 

This site contains biographical profiles of over 200 African-American men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science and engineering. The site provides brief (roughly 250 word) biographies of scholars from fields such as biology, chemistry, physics, zoology, and veterinary medicine, as well as inventors. Among the scientists included in the site are prominent figures like George Washington Carver, scientist and inventor of numerous industrial applications for agricultural products, and astronomer and mathematician Benjamin Banneker. Each entry also includes a bibliography of sources for further biographical information. The site is indexed by scientist name and profession, and there are special sections for the biographies of 20 women scientists and 14 of the first African Americans to receive Ph.D.'s in science. Though there are no primary documents on this site, it is a good place to find general information on prominent African-American scientists throughout American history.

Rachel Carson Homestead

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Images
  • Life Sciences
  • Personal
URL: 

http://www.rachelcarson.org/

Author: 
Linda Lear
Excerpt: 

Rachel Carson, writer, scientist, and ecologist, grew up simply in the rural river town of Springdale, Pennsylvania. Her mother bequeathed to her a life-long love of nature and the living world that Rachel expressed first as a writer and later as a student of marine biology. Carson graduated from Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham College) in 1929, studied at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, and received her MA in zoology from Johns Hopkins University in 1932.

Annotation: 

This site features a short biography of Rachel Carson in addition to bibliographic collections of books by and about Carson. Of interest to researchers would be the collection of links of online Carson resources. A more general listing of links is also made available.

Leo Szilard Online

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Corporation
  • Images
  • Life Sciences
  • Links
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Physical Sciences
  • Primary Source
URL: 

http://www.dannen.com/szilard.html

Excerpt: 

Szilard's ideas included the linear accelerator, cyclotron, electron microscope, and nuclear chain reaction. Equally important was his insistence that scientists accept moral responsibility for the consequences of their work.

Annotation: 

Site contains several biographies of the physicist and biophysicist Leo Szilard. Interviews and other primary sources are made available, as well as links to other sites for potential research. A number of images are present as is an extensive bibliography.

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