Library Resources PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY Look Up Guide

 
Biographies and Prize-winning Physicists
Chemical and Physical Data Sources
Dictionaries
Encyclopedias
Research Article Indexes

 
Biographies and Prize-winning Physicists

Online:
FAMOUS PHYSICISTS
FREE Internet site <http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Physics/Physicists>

NOBEL LAUREATES in PHYSICS, 1901-1999
FREE Internet site <http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/nobel>

CONTRIBUTIONS of 20th CENTURY WOMEN to PHYSICS
FREE Internet site <http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~cwp>
 

Chemical and Physical Data Sources

In print:
CRC HANDBOOK OF CHEMISTRY and PHYSICS
(Shelved on the Science Index Table)

Online:
ASTRO-PHYSICAL DATA
FREE Internet site <http://www.physlink.com/Reference/AstroPhysical.cfm>

ATOMIC CLOCK
FREE Internet site <http://www.time.gov>
Official U. S. Time

ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPIC DATABASE
FREE Internet site <http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/ASD1/choice.html?>

NIST PHYSICAL REFERENCE DATA
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
FREE Internet site <http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/

THERMODEX
FREE Internet site <http://thermodex.lib.utexas.edu>

 

Dictionaries

In print:
General dictionaries and encyclopedic dictionaries
(Shelved on the reference floor under QC 5)

Encyclopedias

In print:
ENCYCLOPEDIAof ACOUSTICS, 4 volumes
(Shelved on the reference floor under QC 221.5 E53 1997)

HANDBUCH der PHYSIK, 55 volumes, 1955-1988
(Shelved on the reference floor under QC 21 .H327)

MACMILLAN ENCYCLOPEDIAof PHYSICS, 4 volumes
(Shelved on the reference floor under QC 5 .M15 1996)

Research Article Locators

In Print:
PHYSICS ABSTRACTS
Science Abstracts Series A, published by The Institute of Electrical Engineers. Print issues, 1948-2001. Online version, INSPEC, is available by appointment (see below).

Online:
EI COMPENDEX
Online equivalent of the Engineering Index. Contact the Hunter College Science Librarian for EI COMPENDEX searches. By appointment.

INSPEC
Online equivalent of Physics Abstracts. Contact the Hunter College Science Librarian for INSPEC searches. By appointment.

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNALS
Part of the HUNTER Online Journals of Physics  Subscription.
Full text for Hunter subscription titles only. Off campus, access through library database page and enter Hunter email user name & password.

Updated 8/21/06

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