Buy new:
-6% $16.95
FREE delivery Friday, May 17 on orders shipped by Amazon over $35
Ships from: Amazon.com
Sold by: Amazon.com
$16.95 with 6 percent savings
List Price: $17.95

The List Price is the suggested retail price of a new product as provided by a manufacturer, supplier, or seller. Except for books, Amazon will display a List Price if the product was purchased by customers on Amazon or offered by other retailers at or above the List Price in at least the past 90 days. List prices may not necessarily reflect the product's prevailing market price.
Learn more
Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime FREE Returns
FREE delivery Friday, May 17 on orders shipped by Amazon over $35. Order within 16 hrs 4 mins
In Stock
$$16.95 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details
Price
Subtotal
$$16.95
Subtotal
Initial payment breakdown
Shipping cost, delivery date, and order total (including tax) shown at checkout.
Ships from
Amazon.com
Ships from
Amazon.com
Sold by
Amazon.com
Sold by
Amazon.com
Returns
30-day easy returns
30-day easy returns
This item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt.
Read full return policy
Returns
30-day easy returns
This item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt.
Read full return policy
Payment
Secure transaction
Your transaction is secure
We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Learn more
Payment
Secure transaction
We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Learn more
$6.89
FREE delivery May 17 - 20. Details
Only 1 left in stock - order soon.
$$16.95 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details
Price
Subtotal
$$16.95
Subtotal
Initial payment breakdown
Shipping cost, delivery date, and order total (including tax) shown at checkout.
Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.
Ships from and sold by YourOnlineBookstore.
Kindle app logo image

Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.

Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web.

Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app.

QR code to download the Kindle App

Follow the author

Jim Ottaviani
+ Follow
More books from this author
Something went wrong. Please try your request again later.

Dignifying Science: Stories About Women Scientists Paperback – Illustrated, April 1, 2009

by Jim Ottaviani (Author), Donna Barr (Illustrator), Stephanie Gladden (Illustrator),
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
See all formats and editions
{"desktop_buybox_group_1":[{"displayPrice":"$16.95","priceAmount":16.95,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"16","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"95","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"FIXjp5VkDzFhDRSoOrX1s8lT3wct1biih19ynVC8exgesr3ShzbaNs8YYA8xOrJbp4nqPMmXDDSrnRv%2BlMZSvwQcrqYqPSWrYJfs5DpZ3xbJrNfoS%2BE5hCy%2B96eiWpo6znkmf4Ss3fg%3D","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"NEW","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":0}, {"displayPrice":"$6.89","priceAmount":6.89,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"6","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"89","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"FIXjp5VkDzFhDRSoOrX1s8lT3wct1biiaIDMfJYijA7nMel5CcqMJbmoPPJp92iULsb%2F4MxMgOGcUYtgPJdxYDdtGsMQziXyHCY%2Fpd0m7ScR8fMdEBKR61T3MVnIUmzQ2S0YjZdpOA50YuvHnqCNzitf9dK%2F6aJXks2lcYtQZhbbWvGMYJEuCZjcR9ZrfUxX","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"USED","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":1}]}

Purchase options and add-ons

This original graphic novel features famous women scientists including Marie Curie, Emmy Noether, Lise Meitner, Rosalind Franklin, Barbara McClintock, Birute Galdikas, and Hedy Lamarr. The stories offer a human context often missing when we learn about the discoveries attached to these scientists' names. Readers, drawn in by the compelling anecdotes, will discover intriguing characters, while end notes and references will lead them to further information on the scientists they've read about.
Read more Read less
Previous page
  1. Print length
    148 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publication date
    April 1, 2009
  4. Reading age
    13 - 16 years
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 0.34 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0978803736
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0978803735
  8. See all details
Next page
The Amazon Book Review
The Amazon Book Review
Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Read it now

Editorial Reviews

Review

Rosalind Franklin's story is one of many great and unsung women scientists' stories recounted in the brilliant, Eisner-nominated comic book Dignifying Science... --Cory Doctorow, via Boing Boing

It's so good, and remarkable how it got so much material across for each woman, so effectively. --Ruth Lewin Sime, author of Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics

Jim Ottaviani's comic books do an excellent job of telling scientific stories in a fun and absorbing way. --Simon Singh, author of The Code Book and Fermat's Enigma

About the Author

All of Jim Ottaviani's books have been nominated for multiple awards, including Eisners & ALA Popular Paperback of the Year, and they also receive critical praise in publications ranging from The Comics Journal to Physics World to Entertainment Weekly to Discover Magazine, and get national broadcast attention in outlets such as NPR's Morning Edition and the CBS Morning Show.

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ G.T. Labs; 3rd ed. edition (April 1, 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 148 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0978803736
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0978803735
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 13 - 16 years
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.34 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.
Jim Ottaviani

Jim Ottaviani

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.
Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Jim Ottaviani has worked in news agencies and golf courses in the Chicago area, nuclear reactors in the U.S. and Japan, and libraries in Michigan. When he's not doing these things, he's spraining his ankles and flattening his feet by running on trails. Or he's reading. He reads a lot. Elsewhere on the web you can find him at www.gt-labs.com .

Customer reviews

4.3 out of 5 stars
4.3 out of 5
6 global ratings

Top reviews from the United States

Armin Nikkhah Shirazi
4.0 out of 5 stars Fills an oft-overlooked niche
Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2011
As a male I was utterly oblivious to the the challenges that women scientists face in their academic careers until attending a conference on women in physics opened my eyes to how both small and large aspects of academic life can make the experience of a woman who aspires to an academic career totally different from that of a man in the same position.

"Dignifying Science", a graphic novel that narrates the biographies of 5 women who made substantial scientific contributions, fills a niche that needs much more attention: Hedy Lamarr, a socialite-turned-actress whose idea of frequency hopping even underlies some of today's communications technologies; Lise Meitner, who co-discovered nuclear fission but was not recognized for her contribution by the Nobel prize committee; Rosalind Franklin, whose work set the stage for the discovery of the structure of DNA; Barbara McClintock, whose research in the genetics of corn led her to the idea of "jumping genes" and went unrecognized for about half a century; and Birute Galdikas, the leading researcher of Orang Utans in their native habitats. The stories are framed by two vignettes in the life of Marie Curie, a prologue giving a glimpse of her life before she was recognized, and an epilogue, recounting her reflections 14 years after she won her second Nobel prize. There are endnotes which provide some insight into the author's intentions in conveying the stories as well as further biographical references for each person.

While all stories are engaging and bring attention to an issue that needs much more than it gets, I did find the biographies uneven. The best are those of Hedy Lamarr and of Rosalind Franklin. Not only do their stories convey an idea about the nature of their contributions but they also give a definite sense of what they were like as real persons. Consequently, the difficulties they faced in a male-dominated world pack that much more of an emotional punch.

The biographies are very short, but the biographical resources listed in the endnotes can give the interested reader a more detailed picture of the lives of these extraordinary persons.
2 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
Jean E. Pouliot
4.0 out of 5 stars The sublime to the awful
Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2011
A graphic novel about little known female scientists should be a welcome treat, but "Dignifying Science" was a potpourri of good storytelling mixed with bad. The stories of Marie Curie, Heddy Lammar, Rosalyn Franklyn and others are penned by different artists. And the results are wildly mixed. Marie Curies story is told by showing her as a young woman freezing in a Polish apartment and as an older woman signing photos to raise money for her lab. Nothing about her research into radium. Rosalind Franklin, who inadvertently tipped off Watson and Crick about the double-helical nature of DNA, is supposed to be mad-bitchy, but comes across as cute, blithe and hardworking. The impression laid down in the artwork - that W&C cribbed the structure of DNA from her work - is contradicted in the notes section. The story of Birute Galdikas, one of the first to study orangutan behavior in the wild, comes across as an excuse to draw a hot young lass in the jungle.

I have developed a love-hate relationship with Jim Ottaviani and his artistic collaborators. He chooses such great stories, and then proceeds to massacre them with inept art and storytelling. But between his half-assed drawings and his rich notes, there is a lot to learn about these heroines of the search for knowledge. I just can't quit him.
11 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
Viking gal
4.0 out of 5 stars A great place to start
Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2011
As someone who has taught a college course on women in science several times, I have found this book a nice switch from all of the more ponderous (and sometimes depressing) sources that I use--and yes, I do assign one reading from it. Is the book perfect? No. But I don't find much perfect on this planet.
The story-telling is good, the art is compelling, and a curious person can use the internet or a library if they want to find out more about any of the stories.
I personally found the use of multiple artists for Rosalind Franklin's segment to be rather brilliant, given that she herself was not able to tell her own story. Everything we know about her is from her colleagues or her family, since she died so young. And of course James Watson's hatchet job on her in 'The Double Helix' is often the first contact that many have with a very vibrant woman and excellent scientist. I found the art reflected the varied portrayals quite nicely.
3 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
Michael K. Smith
3.0 out of 5 stars Could have been much, much better . . .
Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2003
This well-meant companion volume to the author's _Two Fisted Science_ is, unfortunately, not nearly as successful as graphic fiction. This time, five women artists tell the stories of five women scientists. While trying to focus on lesser-known people, Ottaviani finally broke down and included a fore-and-aft pair of shorts on Marie Curie. If you've read Watson's _The Double Helix,_ you may already have heard of Rosalind Franklin, who came very close to discovering the essential shape of DNA before Crick and Watson -- had she only not moved in the wrong direction on a couple of minor points (and possessed a less abrasive personality). Barbara McClintock picked up a Nobel for her work on the corn genome, you'd really never know what her field was from the badly written story (though the art is okay). Biruté Galdikas has become the world's leading authority on orangutans (yes, she's still out there in the jungles of Borneo) and you'll learn a lot about them -- and her -- from Anne Timmons's nicely done piece. But the story of mathematician Lise Meitner is also pretty indistinct. The best of the collection, actually, is Carl Speed McNeil's very well told and drawn story of the scientific side of Hedy Lamarr, of all people. Hedy (not Heddy) actually held some wartime patents in electronics (which became a crucial part of cell phone technology), but still was treated like a bimbo both by her first husband and by Louis B. Mayer after she escaped to the U.S. This book could have been much, much better.
5 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report