Also available online from netLibrary . An Index to Collective Biographies . This resource gives information on about 29,000 scientists, engineers, and mathematicians from the mid-1800s to the late 1900s. It helps identify many papers not indexed elsewhere. It includes brief biographies, major works, and some secondary sources.
Coverage is worldwide.
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society . Royal Society of London. Q41.R9 Simonis, Doris, ed. Oryx Press, 1999. The scientists are ranked by overall influence as determined by the author.