diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/scipy/0.17.1.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/scipy/0.17.1.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..fea8a05bca15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/scipy/0.17.1.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+{lib, fetchurl, python, buildPythonPackage, isPyPy, gfortran, nose, numpy}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "scipy";
+  version = "0.17.1";
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://pypi/s/scipy/scipy-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1b1qpfz2j2rvmlplsjbnznnxnqr9ckbmis506110ii1w07wd4k4w";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ gfortran nose numpy.blas ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ numpy ];
+
+  # Remove tests because of broken wrapper
+  prePatch = ''
+    rm scipy/linalg/tests/test_lapack.py
+  '';
+
+  preConfigure = ''
+    sed -i '0,/from numpy.distutils.core/s//import setuptools;from numpy.distutils.core/' setup.py
+    export NPY_NUM_BUILD_JOBS=$NIX_BUILD_CORES
+  '';
+
+  preBuild = ''
+    echo "Creating site.cfg file..."
+    cat << EOF > site.cfg
+    [openblas]
+    include_dirs = ${numpy.blas}/include
+    library_dirs = ${numpy.blas}/lib
+    EOF
+  '';
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  checkPhase = ''
+    runHook preCheck
+    pushd dist
+    ${python.interpreter} -c 'import scipy; scipy.test("fast", verbose=10)'
+    popd
+    runHook postCheck
+  '';
+
+  passthru = {
+    blas = numpy.blas;
+  };
+
+  setupPyBuildFlags = [ "--fcompiler='gnu95'" ];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "SciPy (pronounced 'Sigh Pie') is open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering. ";
+    homepage = http://www.scipy.org/;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ fridh ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index a10f4e9830ab..4a34b22482e3 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -14990,6 +14990,59 @@ in {
 
   pandas = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pandas { };
 
+  pandas_17 = let
+    inherit (pkgs.stdenv.lib) optional optionalString;
+    inherit (pkgs.stdenv) isDarwin;
+  in buildPythonPackage rec {
+    name = "pandas-${version}";
+    version = "0.17.1";
+
+    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
+      url = "https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pandas/${name}.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "cfd7214a7223703fe6999fbe34837749540efee1c985e6aee9933f30e3f72837";
+    };
+
+    buildInputs = with self; [ nose ] ++ optional isDarwin pkgs.libcxx;
+    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [
+      dateutil
+      scipy_0_17
+      numexpr
+      pytz
+      xlrd
+      bottleneck
+      sqlalchemy
+      lxml
+      html5lib
+#      modules.sqlite3
+      beautifulsoup4
+    ] ++ optional isDarwin pkgs.darwin.locale; # provides the locale command
+
+    # For OSX, we need to add a dependency on libcxx, which provides
+    # `complex.h` and other libraries that pandas depends on to build.
+    patchPhase = optionalString isDarwin ''
+      cpp_sdk="${pkgs.libcxx}/include/c++/v1";
+      echo "Adding $cpp_sdk to the setup.py common_include variable"
+      substituteInPlace setup.py \
+        --replace "['pandas/src/klib', 'pandas/src']" \
+                  "['pandas/src/klib', 'pandas/src', '$cpp_sdk']"
+
+      # disable clipboard tests since pbcopy/pbpaste are not open source
+      substituteInPlace pandas/io/tests/test_clipboard.py \
+        --replace pandas.util.clipboard no_such_module \
+        --replace OSError ImportError
+    '';
+
+    doCheck = false;
+
+    meta = {
+      homepage = "http://pandas.pydata.org/";
+      description = "Python Data Analysis Library";
+      license = licenses.bsd3;
+      maintainers = with maintainers; [ raskin fridh ];
+      platforms = platforms.unix;
+    };
+  };
+
   xlrd = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "xlrd-${version}";
 
@@ -19348,6 +19401,8 @@ in {
 
   scipy = callPackage ../development/python-modules/scipy { };
 
+  scipy_0_17 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/scipy/0.17.1.nix { };
+
   scikitimage = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "scikit-image-${version}";
     version = "0.12.3";