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Profiles in Science: http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov (National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland)
According to the OED a profile is, among other things, "a short biographical sketch or character study, esp. of a public figure." The National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Web site Profiles in Science is more than a series of profiles, however. is also a potentially useful and searchable online collection of documents and iconographic material relating to "several prominent twentieth-century American biomedical scientists."
Unfortunately, Profiles in Science is not that easy to find through NLM's main Web site (http://www.nlm.nih.gov). It takes some navigational and operative mouse skills to discover it. First, click "History of Medicine" among the many options in the left column, then "Digital Collections," and-if you are dexterous in the use of a mouse-eventually you may be able to open Profiles in Science (only to discover there is also a clickable banner for illiterate navigators.)
Better use a search engine. The fact that Profiles in Science comes up first among around 30,000 hits on Google-right before Wes Kim's celebrated short video about the fictive...