"The American Physical Society's Committee on the Status of Women in Physics and its Forum on the History of Physics cosponsored development of the archive...in 1999... This site contains guides to the archive, a search engine, "fascinating documents" (a mixture of obituaries, scientific treatises, and correspondence), a few unrefereed articles on the history of women in physics, quotations, and a database of reference books and journal articles...

Most of the site...is devoted to the 86 women from subfields such as astrophysics, atomic physics, crystallography, education, fluid dynamics, mathematical physics, and nuclear physics. Physicists profiled include Marie Curie, Helen Edwards, Shirley Jackson, Maria Mayer, and Vera Rubin. Each biography page contains a photograph of the physicist, her major contributions and publications, honors, employment, education, additional information, and recommended reading. Factual information is brief but correct." (Choice Reviews online, July 2007)