New Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Ed. by Noretta Koertge
Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2008
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From Gale:
“Charles Scribner’s Sons releases the first major expansion of the Dictionary of Scientific Biography, entitled The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, featuring more than 775 completely new articles. This new work extends, complements and comments upon the original Dictionary of Scientific Biography, which contains thousands of biographies of mathematicians and natural scientists from all regions and historical periods. The Dictionary of Scientific Biography presents an accurate and reliable narrative of the development of science, not as a mere accumulation of technical information but as the collective accomplishment that has ordered our understanding of nature. More than 500 of the new articles are devoted to scientists deceased since 1980 and not previously treated in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography including Hans Bethe, Francis Crick, Richard Feynman, Stephen Jay Gould, Fred Hoyle, Mary Leakey, Konrad Lorenz, Barbara McClintock, Linus Pauling, Andrei Sakharov, B. F. Skinner, and Edward Teller. There are also more than 75 articles on figures overlooked in the original Dictionary of Scientific Biography (from Chrysippus to Kinsey) and 250 “postscript” commentaries on important careers that have inspired new research and interpretation (from Archimedes and Aristotle to Darwin, Einstein, and Oppenheimer).

The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography guarantees the permanent relevance of the original work and constitutes a huge expansion of its scope.

Selected biographies include:

• Luis Walter Alvarez
• Aristotle
• Charles Babbage
• Francis Bacon
• Charles Robert Darwin
• Albert Einstein
• Rosalind Elsie Franklin
• Galileo Galilei
• Caroline Lucretia Herschel
• Thomas Henry Huxley
• Carl Gustav Jung
• Isaac Newton
• J. Robert Oppenheimer
• Louis Pasteur
• Jean Piaget
• Claudine Picardet
• Julia Bowman Robinson
• Carl Sagan
• Beatrice Tinsley
• Alan Mathison Turing
• And many more”

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We are excited to announce that the new JSTOR platform will be launched on Friday, April 4. The behind-the-scenes process for switching from the existing JSTOR to the new platform will begin around 7:00 a.m. EST. We will be making changes throughout the day, but the vast majority of users should experience no interruption or downtime. If you do have any difficulties, though, please contact support@jstor.org.

A document describing features of the new platform is included in the JSTOR Sandbox (http://sandbox.jstor.org/). The Sandbox also has links to tutorials and training materials focused on the new JSTOR interface. In addition, a list of newly scheduled webinars appears at the end of this announcement, with links to online registration.

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Webinars

The following training webinars are led by JSTOR User Services staff. A phone and a computer with online access are required. To register, follow a link in the list below.

Highlights of the New JSTOR Interface
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
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Using the JSTOR Interface
Thursday, April 17, 2008 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT
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Highlights of the New JSTOR Interface
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Highlights of the New JSTOR Interface
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
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Using the JSTOR Interface
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
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Highlights of the New JSTOR Interface
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT
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