Almost two years ago, I had a post on some scientist biography series published by various university presses. I'd like to provide a few miscellaneous notes on that post.
First, the Cambridge University Press series, Cambridge Science Biographies, was originally published by Blackwell and called the Blackwell Science Biographies. I recently acquired used copies of the volumes on Galileo and Newton, two of the three in the series devoted to physicists (I am missing the volume for Ampere). My copy of the Galileo volume (by the late Father Michael Sharratt) is from the Blackwell era, while my copy of the Newton volume (by the late A. Rupert Hall) is from the Cambridge era.
Turning to their rival, Oxford University Press, I discovered a more general biography series of theirs called Lives and Legacies. I see that there are ten volumes in the series, only two of which are dedicated to scientists. One is Isaac Newton, and the other is Ben Franklin. To the extent that Franklin was a scientist, he was a physicist, so it is notable that the only 2 scientists in the series are physicists.
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