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Gale Group, 2008.- 433 pp. The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography (DSB) is a major addition to the magisterial compilationof scientific biographies edited by Charles Gillispie and published by Charles Scribner’s Sons between 1970 and 1980. The original sixteen volumes of the DSB presented scholarly essays on the lives and careers of great scientists, mathematicians, and natural philosophers from the time of Thales, Hippocrates, and Aristotle to such twentieth-century figures as Hubble, Curie, and Einstein. In 1990, two new supplementary volumes were added to cover recently deceased figures such as Rachel Carson, Kurt Gödel, Werner Heisenberg, and Jacques Monod.
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New Dictionary of Scientific Biography Published by special arrangement with the American Council of Learned Societies The American Council of Learned Societies, organized in 1919 for the purpose of advancing the study of the humanities and of the humanistic aspects of the social sciences, is a nonprofit federation comprising thirty-three national scholarly groups. The Council represents the humanities in the United States in the International Union of Academies, provides fellowships and grants-in-aid, supports research-and-planning conferences and symposia, and sponsers special projects and scholarly publications. MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS American Philosophical Society, 1743 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1780 American Antiquarian Society, 1812 American Oriental Society, 1842 American Numismatic Society, 1858 American Philological Association, 1869 Archaeological Institute of America, 1879 Society of Biblical Literature, 1880 Modern Language Association of America, 1883 American Historical Association, 1884 American Economic Association, 1885 American Folklore Society, 1888 American Society of Church History, 1888 American Dialect Society, 1889 American Psychological Association, 1892 Association of American Law Schools, 1900 American Philosophical Association, 1900 American Schools of Oriental Research, 1900 American Anthropological Association, 1902 American Political Science Association, 1903 Bibliographical Society of America, 1904 Association of American Geographers, 1904 Hispanic Society of America, 1904 American Sociological Association, 1905 American Society of International Law, 1906 Organization of American Historians, 1907 American Academy of Religion, 1909 College Forum of the National Council of Teachers of English, 1911 Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, 1911 College Art Association, 1912 National Communication Association, 1914 History of Science Society, 1924 Linguistic Society of America, 1924 Medieval Academy of America, 1925 American Association for the History of Medicine, 1925 American Musicological Society, 1934 Economic History Association, 1940 Society of Architectural Historians, 1940 Association for Asian Studies, 1941 American Society for Aesthetics, 1942 American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 1948 American Studies Association, 1950 Metaphysical Society of America, 1950 North American Conference on British Studies, 1950 American Society of Comparative Law, 1951 Renaissance Society of America, 1954 Society for Ethnomusicolog y, 1955 Society for French Historical Studies, 1956 International Center of Medieval Art, 1956 American Society for Legal History, 1956 American Society for Theatre Research, 1956 African Studies Association, 1957 Society for the History of Technolog y, 1958 Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 1959 American Comparative Literature Association, 1960 Law and Society Association, 1964 Middle East Studies Association of North America, 1966 Latin American Studies Association, 1966 Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, 1968 American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, 1969 Association for Jewish Studies, 1969 Six