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History of Science | Photographs of scientists | Medicine | Genetics and Biotechnology

History of Science 

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Science Service Historical Image Collection 
http://americanhistory.si.edu/scienceservice/
Represents twentieth-century scientific research consisting of images and original captions as they appeared in period publications. 

Photographs of Scientists
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Caltech Archives PhotoNet 
http://archives.caltech.edu//photoNet.html
Includes a wide selection of images of people, places, and things.

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Emilio Segrč Visual Archives
http://www.aip.org/history/esva/
contains a collection of over 25,000 images of scientists maintained by the American Institute by Physics.

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Edgar Fahs Smith Collection
http://www.library.upenn.edu/etext/smith/chemists.html
Displays images of scientists and philosophers.

Medicine

bullet AnatLine
http://anatline.nlm.nih.gov/
Developed by the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications at the National Library of Medicine. Consists anatomy images of the human body.
bullet Health on the Net Media Gallery
http://wolfgang.hcuge.ch/Media/media.html

Put together by the Health on the Net Foundation. Indexed by body part and includes still images and photos of medical conditions and procedures from around the world.
bullet Images from the History of medicine
http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/
Produced by the National Library of Medicine. Contains about 60,000 images from the library's History of Medicine Division. Includes prints, lithographs, engravings, etchings, woodcarvings, and paintings.
bullet The Whole Brain Atlas
http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/home.html
Includes still pictures and movies (*.html and *.mpg files) of the brain. 

 Genetics and Biotechnology

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Genetic Illustrations
http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/DIR/VIP/Learning_Tools/genetic_illustrations.html
From the NIH Office of Science Education and Outreach. 

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Graphics Gallery - Access Excellence Biotech Applied
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/GG/
A series of labeled diagrams with explanations representing the important processes of biotechnology. 

Updated March 2003

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