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Felice Frankel

Autor von On the Surface of Things

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Felice Frankel is a photographer who aimed her camera at landscapes for 20 years. This resulted in the award-winning book, Modern Landscape Architecture: Redefining the Garden. In On the Surface of Things, co-authored with chemistry professor George Whitesides, she changes her focus, photographing mehr anzeigen such colorful scientific phenomena as DNA strands and chemical reactions. In 1991 she received a Loeb Art fellowship at Harvard, where she explored a relationship between science and art. Joining MIT in 1993 as an artist-in-residence and Guggenheim fellow, she teaches researchers and students how to add a visual element to their research. She is also writing a book on the same subject, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen

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Good tips for scientists needing to use graphics for communicating their data and conclusions. Each discipline requires different strategies.

However, if you want to learn about how to do visuals, read Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information and his other works.
 
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KirkLowery | Mar 4, 2014 |
Chemistry is a beautiful subject. Beyond the intellectual satisfaction of finding out how things work, there is also aesthetic reward in an optically-active crystal viewed in polarized light, a colorful reaction, or even scientific glassware. We "see" molecules only in the mind's eye, but supramolecular chemistry and nanotechnology are beginning to fill the gap between molecules too small to view optically and the macroscopic world. Much of what is found in that realm is almost incredibly beautiful, when viewed through modern microscopes. Photographer Felice Frankel collaborated with materials scientist George Whitesides to produce this very attractive volume of photographs that would enhance anyone's coffee table. However, I was disappointed to find the subtitle to be an unfulfilled promise. There is very little science here, and also only a sprinkling of nanoscale.… (mehr)
 
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hcubic | 1 weitere Rezension | Feb 17, 2013 |
This book features lots of very close-up photographs of scientifically interesting things such as ice crystals, opals, drops of water, yeast cells, and various bits of micro-technology. Each photo is accompanied by a few paragraphs of text. The writing is rather poetic, and features some fairly good metaphors for various scientific concepts, but I have to say, I found it rather frustrating, as I would much rather have had a much more plain and clear explanation of exactly what I was looking at. It's definitely a "science for artistic types" kind of book, whereas I'm the kind of person who's more likely to need art books written for scientific types.… (mehr)
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bragan | 4 weitere Rezensionen | Apr 3, 2012 |
A coffee-table-ish picture book. The pictures and rather lyrical text describe a lot of things a few nanometers in size.
 
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fpagan | 1 weitere Rezension | Apr 29, 2010 |

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