Dictionary of Scientists

A Dictionary of Scientists, by Oxford University Press
Here are authoritative and up-to-date biographies of the world's scientists, from ancient times to the cutting edge. All areas of science are represented, from physics and astronomy to medicine and ecology, plus key figures in the fields of mathematics and technology.
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L'Hôpital, Marquis Guillaume François Antoine de (French theologian & statesman/stateswoman)
Lamb, Willis Eugene, Jr. (American physicist)
Lambert, Johann Heinrich (German-French philosopher & scientist)
Lamont, Johann von (Scottish-German astronomer & mystic)
Land, Edwin Herbert (American inventor & photographer)
Landau, Lev Davidovich (Russian physicist)
Landsteiner, Karl (American physician)
Langevin, Paul (French physicist & chemist)
Langmuir, Irving (American chemist)
Laughlin, Robert B. (American physicist)
Laurent, Auguste (French chemist)
Lawes, John Bennet, Sir (English agriculturalist)
Le Bel, Joseph Achille (French chemist)
Le Chatelier, Henri Louis (French chemist & industrialist)
Le Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph (Mathematician / Astronomer)
Leakey, Mary (anthropologist, paleontologist & archaeologist)
Leakey, Richard Erskine (Kenyan anthropologist & politician)
Lederman, Leon Max (American physicist)
Lee, David Morris (American physicist)
Lee, Tsung-Dao (American physicist)
Lee, Yuan Tseh (Chinese-American chemist)
Lehn, Jean Marie Pierre (French chemist)
Leloir, Luis Frederico (Argentinian biochemist)
Lemaître, Abbé Georges Edouard (Belgian astrophysicist, mathematician & theologian)
Lenard, Philipp Eduard Anton (German physicist)
Leucippus (Ancient Greek philosopher)
Levi-Montalcini, Rita (Italian-American microbiologist)
Lewis, Edward B. (American geneticist)
Lewis, Gilbert Newton (American chemist)
Lie, Marius Sophus (Norwegian mathematician)