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Edited by Roy Porter. This is listed as the Second Edition, which combines six volumes previously published as The Biographical Dictionary of Scientists -- Biologists and Chemists, 1983, Astronomers and Physicists, 1984, and Engineers and Inventors, Mathematicians, 1985. Published in one single volume of 891 pages, Helicon Publishing, 1994.

People in this reference: 172 Those presently living: 12 Those deceased: 160     White: 165 Black: 2 Hispanic: 1 Asian/Indian: 1 Asian: 1 Multiracial: 1 Middle Eastern: 1     England: 47 United States: 40 France: 25 Germany: 23 Ancient Greece: 8 Sweden: 5 Scotland: 5 Italy: 5 Denmark: 4 Austria: 3 South Africa: 1 Japan: 1 Ancient Rome: 1 Poland: 1 Australia: 1 Switzerland: 1 Norway: 1

Niels Henrik Abel       John Couch Adams       Alfred Adler       Louis Agassiz       Georg Agricola       George Biddell Airy       Kurt Alder       Hannes Alfvén       Luis W. Alvarez       André-Marie Ampère       Anaximander       Carl David Anderson       Philip W. Anderson       Anders Jonas Ångström       Edward Victor Appleton             ·             · (142 names omitted for brevity)             ·             ·       Léon Foucault       Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier       William A. Fowler       James Franck       Benjamin Franklin       Augustin-Jean Fresnel       Sigmund Freud       Otto Robert Frisch       Robert Fulton       Abraham de Moivre       Ben R. Mottelson       James Rainwater       James Watson       Maurice Wilkins       Geoffrey Wilkinson

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