Millar D. et al. The Cambridge Dictionary of Scientists

2nd ed. Cambridge University Press. 2002. 440 p.
The exploration of space.
Global warming.
Napoleon and science.
The entry of women into astronomy.
The exploration of Australia.
The history of astronomy.
Telescopes.
The history of nuclear and particle physics.
Pheromones.
The history of mathematics.
The Darwin/Wedgwood/Galton relationships.
Mnemonics.
The geological timescale.
Science and the First World War (1914–18).
The history of medicine.
Scientific societies.
The entry of women into medicine.
The different forms of carbon.
The quest for human origins.
A history of agriculture in the developed world.
Chaos.
Superheavy chemical elements: a limit to the periodic table?
Periodic table of the chemical elements.
The history of genetics.
AIDS and HIV.
Long-range communication.
Science and the Second World War (1939–45).
The history of the heat engine.
A strange biochemical: nitric oxide.
Antarctica: the continent for science.
The entry of women into chemistry in Britain.
The entry of women into the biological sciences.
The development of photography.
The Internet and international scientific collaboration.
The origin of life on Earth: an unsolved problem.
The development of the computer.
Human inherited disease and the Human Genome Project.
The history of aeronautics.