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Feynman (2011)Published Jan 1, 2011The best first science comic for most adults. Jim Ottaviani and Leland Myrick follow Richard Feynman from a Long Island childhood through the Manhattan Project to the Challenger disaster, and the pranks, safecracking and bongo drums keep it moving between the physics.
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Logicomix (2009)Published Jan 1, 2009The rare comic about mathematics itself. Bertrand Russell narrates his own search for a perfectly secure foundation for math, and along the way you meet Frege, Hilbert, Wittgenstein and Gödel and learn why that search ran into a wall.
Apostolos Doxiadis and the computer scientist Christos…0 - 3
Radioactive (2010)★ 9.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2010Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout (2010)
Not panels and balloons but something stranger: Lauren Redniss builds each page from her own luminous artwork and text, so the Curies' marriage, their discovery and what radioactivity went on to mean all unfold together. It was a…0 - 4
Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas (2013)Published Jan 1, 2013Field science as it actually happens: years of patience in a forest before anyone will let you close. Jim Ottaviani tells how Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey and Biruté Galdikas were each recruited by the anthropologist Louis Leakey to study chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans, and the three stories…0 - 5
The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA (2009)Published Jan 1, 2009The clearest one-volume tour of genetics in comics. Bloort 183, a scientist from an asexual alien race threatened by disease, has to brief his slow-on-the-uptake leader on how human DNA and evolution work, and that silly frame is exactly what makes it teach well: every explanation is pitched at…0 - 6
Two-Fisted Science (1997)Published Jan 1, 1997Where Jim Ottaviani's science comics began. He self-published this anthology of true stories from the history of science in 1997, and it won a Xeric Award and an Eisner nomination; Feynman, Galileo, Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg all turn up, alongside a cosmologist and several…0 - 7
Dignifying Science: Stories about Women Scientists (1999)Published Jan 1, 1999The companion to Two-Fisted Science, devoted to women in science. Jim Ottaviani's anthology tells true stories of Marie Curie, Emmy Noether, Lise Meitner, Rosalind Franklin, Barbara McClintock, Biruté Galdikas and Hedy Lamarr, each drawn by a different artist.
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Suspended in Language: Niels Bohr's Life, Discoveries, and the Century He Shaped (2004)Published Jan 1, 2004If you have ever drawn the little solar-system atom, this is the story of the man behind that model. Jim Ottaviani and Leland Purvis follow Niels Bohr through the discoveries that made him one of the founders of quantum physics and through a century his ideas helped shape.
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The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded (2016)Published Jan 1, 2016The math and computing pick for readers who saw the film and want the ideas instead of the drama. Jim Ottaviani and Leland Purvis cover Alan Turing's work on computing and artificial intelligence as well as the cracking of the German Enigma during World War II, giving the abstract side of his work…0 - 10
Hawking (2019)Published Jan 1, 2019A cosmology primer wrapped around a life. The Feynman team, Jim Ottaviani and Leland Myrick, reunited in 2019 for Stephen Hawking, and the book is at its best when it walks through what he actually worked on: the mathematics of white dwarf stars, the expanding universe and black holes.
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