- Biographies of Women Mathematicians: Florence Nightingale
Briefly describes Florence Nightingale's career, including her innovations in the collection, tabulation, interpretation, and graphical display of descriptive statistics.
www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/nitegale.htm
- Florence Nightingale Museum
Preserving Florence Nightingale's heritage and interpreting the relevance of her life and work for the benefit of the present and future generations.
www.florence-nightingale.co.uk
- Florence Nightingale: Rural Hygiene
Essay written by Nightingale on the subject of hygiene. From the Modern History Sourcebook.
www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/nightingale-rural.html
- MacTutor History of Mathematics: Florence Nightingale
Biography of Florence Nightingale, the first woman to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.
www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Nightingale.html
- New York Times: Miss Nightingale Dies, Aged Ninety
1910 obituary of Florence Nighingale, known for her work as a nurse during the Crimean War.
www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0512.html
- Selection of Letters Written by Florence Nightingale
Online exhibit of letters Florence Nightingale wrote to friends, acquaitances, and well-wishers from the 1850s to the 1890s. From the Clendening History of Medicine Library.
clendening.kumc.edu/dc/fn
- Spartacus Educational: Florence Nightingale
Biography of Florence Nightingale, "the Lady with the Lamp," with excerpts from her letters and diaries plus remarks from her contemporaries.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REnightingale.htm
- Victorian Web: Florence Nightingale
Biography of nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale, covering her services in the Crimean War and her life afterward.
www.victorianweb.org/history/crimea/florrie.html
- Wikipedia: Florence Nightingale
Photograph and profile of Florence Nightingale that describes her pioneering nursing efforts as well as her contribution to statistics.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale
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