History of Genetics

PEOPLE

• MendelWeb
http://www.mendelweb.org/
The best source on all things related to Gregor Mendel's research on hybrids. This site includes Mendel’s original papers with very useful historical commentaries, such as Robert Olby, s "Mendel, Mendelism and Genetics", Vítezslav Orel’s "Heredity Before Mendel", Jan Sapp’s "The Nine Lives of Gregor Mendel", and Diane Paul and Barbara Kimmelman’s "Mendel in America: Theory and Practice, 1900-1919."

• Profiles in Science
http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/
The National Library of Medicine maintains a growing collection of digitial history resources of interest to historians of genetics and molecular biology. Organized biographically, each profile includes a history of that person’s research as well as relevant documents and images. This site currently hosts profiles of Christian B. Anfinsen, Oswald T. Avery, Julius Axelrod, Francis Crick, Donald S. Fredrickson, Joshua Lederberg, Salvador E. Luria, Barbara McClintock, Marshall W. Nirenberg, Linus Pauling, Martin Rodbell, Florence R. Sabin, and Albert Szent-Gyorgyi.