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General Resources

The Nobel E-Museum
http://www.nobel.se/

"Nobel e-Museum offers information on all the 758 Prize Winners to date, the Nobel Organization, Alfred Nobel, Nobel events, as well as educational materials and games. Nobel e-Museum consists of more than 9,000 static documents, several databases and a number of multimedia productions that are based on the Nobel Prizes."

Literature and Science Syllabi Home Page
http://www.law.duke.edu/shell/infoweb/slsresource.php?filter=Online+Syllabi

SciNetPhotos
http://www.scinetphotos.com/
 Stock science photo library from Hank Morgan Photography. Over 30,000 science related images; have appeared internationally in over 1000 magazines.

Bose, Jagadis Chandra
http://www.tuc.nrao.edu/~demerson/bose/bose.html
"carried out research at frequencies up to 60 GHz in the 1890s. Invented many microwave and waveguide components."

Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
http://www.chstm.man.ac.uk/

The Vaccine Page
http://vaccines.com/
Vaccine news and database

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ENGLHOME.HTM

Jesuits and the Sciences, 1540-1995
http://libraries.luc.edu/about/exhibits/jesuits/
exhibit of scientific works written and published by the Jesuits

Calendars
http://astro.nmsu.edu/~lhuber/leaphist.html
"
This information is reprinted from the Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac, P. Kenneth Seidelmann, editor, with permission from University Science Books, Sausalito, CA 94965. From the Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac; contains much information on the Julian and the Gregorian calendars as well as on several non-European calendars such as the Chinese"

Systems of Time
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/systime.html
from the U. S. Naval Observatory
 

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Astronomy and Space

The Nine Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System
http://www.nineplanets.org/

The Galileo Project
http://galileo.rice.edu/

Galileo: Journey to Jupiter
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/

Online from Jupiter
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/galileo/index.html

Physical Sciences Information Gateway: Astronomy
http://www.psigate.ac.uk/newsite/astronomy-gateway.html

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Math and Physics

Center for the History of Physics
http://www.aip.org/history/

Physical Sciences Information Gateway: Physics
http://www.psigate.ac.uk/newsite/physics-gateway.html

Ancient Mathematics
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Experimental/vatican.exhibit/exhibit/d-mathematics/Mathematics.html
from the Library of Congress Vatican Exhibit

The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/

History of Mathematics: China
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/china.html

Mathworld: The World's Most Extensive Mathematics Resource
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/

A History of Pi
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Pi_through_the_ages.html

Women Mathematicians
http://www.scottlan.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm

A History of Quantum Mechanics
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/The_Quantum_age_begins.html

Leo Szilard Online
http://www.dannen.com/szilard.html

Pictures of Famous Physicists
http://www.th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de/~jr/portraits.html

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Computers

Computer History Museum
http://www.computerhistory.org/

The Virtual Museum of  Computing
http://vmoc.museophile.org/

American Computer Museum
http://www.compustory.com/

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
http://www.computer.org/annals/?SMIDENTITY=NO

IEEE History Center
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/history_center/

A Brief History of the Rice Computer
http://www.princeton.edu/~adam/R1/r1rpt.html

Unisys History Newsletter
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/services/unisys-folklore/

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Other Sciences

History of Chemical Engineering, Chemical Technology, & (Center for the History of Defense Electronics) CHiDE
http://www1.cems.umn.edu/orgs/aiche/archive/history/h_intro.html

Space Images Archive
http://www.seds.org/ftpweb/

CNN Technology News
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/index.html

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