Dictionaries and terminology

• Unified Astronomy Thesaurus
• Dictionary of astronomy
• Dictionary of geophysics, astrophysics and astronomy
• Dictionary of material science and high energy physics [online or print]
• Dictionary of physics, 5th ed
• Dictionary of pure and applied physics [online or print]
• Encyclopedic dictionary of condensed matter physics [print]

Encyclopedias

• Dekker Encyclopedia of nanoscience and nanotechnology [online or print]
• Encyclopedia of acoustics [print]
• Encyclopedia of analytical science [print]
• Encyclopedia of applied physics [print]
• Encyclopedia of catalysis [print]
• Encyclopedia of chemical physics and physical chemistry [print]
• Encyclopedia of condensed matter physics [print]
• Encyclopedia of energy [online or print]
• Encyclopedia of magnetic resonance: EMR [online or print]
• Encyclopedia of mathematical physics [print]
• Encyclopedia of modern optics [print]
• Encyclopedia of nanoscience and nanotechnology [print]
• Encyclopedia of physical science and technology [print]
• Encyclopedia of polymer science and technology [print]
• Optics encyclopedia: basic foundations and practical applications [print]
• Particle Data Group - The Review of Particle Physics -- A biennial comprehensive review summarizing much of the known data about the field of particle physics produced by the international Particle Data Group (PDG).

Biographical information

• American National Biography
• Biographical Memoirs (from the National Academy of Sciences)
• Complete dictionary of scientific biography -- Online access to the Dictionary of scientific biography [1970-1980] and the New dictionary of scientific biography (2008)
• Einstein Archives Online
• International encyclopedia of women scientists [print]
• International women in science: a biographical dictionary to 1950 [print]
• Prominent scientists: an index to collective biographies [print]
• Women in chemistry and physics: a bio-bibliographic sourcebook [print]
• World who's who in science: a biographical dictionary of notable scientists from antiquity to the present [print]