The Science and Academia Work Group is a working group of members of the Biography WikiProject dedicated to ensuring quality and coverage of biography articles.
Biography (science and academia) articles by quality and importance
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John H. Werren, Nathaniel and Helen Wisch Professor in Biology at the University of Rochester, leading expert in evolutionary genetics, awarded the Humboldt Prize[1], member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[2][3], fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science[4];
Google Scholar profile. News stories about his research: [5][6][7]
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Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Work groups/Division banner}} and save. This will put a rough outline together for you and then you can edit it to conform to your area. If your project grows large enough where it's taking up a good portion of this page, you should probably move it to a subpage of this page.
You might also want to make a Members section for people to join your specific area!
Tagging articles
Any article related to this work group should be marked by adding |s&a-work-group=yes to the {{
WPBiography}} project banner at the top of its talk page. This will automatically place it into
Category:Science and academia work group articles.
Articles can be assessed for priority within this work group by using the |s&a-priority= parameter. See
Template:WikiProject Biography/doc for detailed instructions on how to use the banner.
Alexander Gieg (
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luke - Interested in physics/physicists especially, but will try and help in mathematicians and other scientists if able. come on people :)
Davy p 00:42, 19 November 2006 (UTC)]] - Natural science, physics by training, currently somewhat rusty in places - still learing wikispeakreply
Lquilter - biographies of scientists, esp women, non-Anglo, non-English speaking. Scientific awards and associations.
Peter G Werner - Mycologists and San Francisco Bay Area scientists
DGG 04:26, 18 March 2007 (UTC) - currently involved in patrolling CSD to rescue such articles, and trying to get the originators of the article--who are, alas, generally the people themselves, to improved them.reply
FeralOink Deceased or elderly mathematicians, physicians, chemists, statisticians and economists who are neglected among Wikipedia biographies, despite notable achievements e.g. Nobel prizes or substantiated discoveries in basic scientific research, especially in an academic milieu.
David Eppstein (
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Joeyvandernaald (
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Blueclaw (
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Adh (
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Joe Roe (
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MaynardClark (
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Shari Garland (
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Bibeyjj (
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