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In December of 2007, Charles Scribner's Sons will release the first major reworking of the Dictionary of Scientific Biography, entitled New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, featuring 775 completely new articles. This new resource extends, complements, and comments upon the original Dictionary of Scientific Biography's thousands of biographies of mathematicians and natural scientists from all regions and historical periods. It presents an accurate and reliable narrative of the development of science, not as a mere accumulation of technical information but as the collective accomplishment that has ordered our understanding of nature. More than 500 of these new articles are devoted to scientists deceased since 1950; including Hans Bethe, Francis Crick, Richard Feynman, Stephen Jay Gould, Fred Hoyle, Mary Leakey, Konrad Lorenz, Barbara McClintock, Linus Pauling, Andrei Sakharov, B. F. Skinner, and Edward Teller. There are also more than 75 articles on figures overlooked in the original Dictionary of Scientific Biography (from Chrysippus to Kinsey) and 225 "postscript" commentaries on important figures who have inspired new research and interpretation (from Archimedes and Aristotle to Darwin, Einstein, and Oppenheimer). The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography guarantees the permanent relevance of the original work and constitutes a huge expansion of its scope.