Daintith John. A Dictionary of Scientists

New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. — 586 p. — (Oxford Paperback Reference).Bibliographic scientific dictionary in English.This book is a shortened and updated version of An Encyclopedia of Scientists, published by the Institute of Physics in 1993. In compiling this edition we have followed the intention of the original editors to say as much about science as about the scientists who have created it.
All the entries contain basic biographical data place and date of birth, posts held, etc but do not give exhaustive personal details about the subjects family, prizes, honorary degrees, etc. Most of the space has been devoted to their main scientific achievements and the nature and importance of these achievements. This has not always been easy; in particular, it has not always been possible to explain in relatively simple terms work in the higher reaches of abstract mathematics or modern theoretical physics.