This page is the homepage for the University of Central Arkansas Honors College Junior Seminar: Scientific Biography. Links on the left are sites that provide biogrphical information about a variety of people. Links on the right are sites providing biographies of the named individual
Alison Sinclair is a science fiction writer, she maintains a web page listing fictional and biographical books about women in science. The list can be found here. Ms. Sinclair has also written an essay discussing some of these novels for HMS Beagle, the now defunct BioMedNet online journal. You can follow a link to read it from the previously mentioned page - you will have to register to do this (it is free).
The "Big Picture" a timeline for Greek and Roman Science is here. The Big Picture
You can download a pdf of naming practices in arabic here
Here are some useful websites:
The Internet Medieval Sourcebook is here
The medieval technology pages are here
A list of suggested names for your biography assignment is here. It is not exhaustive - I'd prefer that you found your own