Additional Materials

Books

Buy at MIT Press Frankel, Felice C. Envisioning Science: The Design and Craft of the Science Image. MIT Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780262562058. [Preview with Google Books]

———. Sguardi Sulla Scienza / Visions of Science. Edizioni Olivares, 2005. ISBN: 9788885982925.

Frankel, Felice C., and Angela H. DePace. Visual Strategies: A Practical Guide to Graphics for Scientists and Engineers. Yale University Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780300176445.

Frankel, Felice C., and George M. Whitesides. No Small Matter: Science on the Nanoscale. Belknap Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780674035669. [Preview with Google Books]

———. On the Surface of Things: Images of the Extraordinary in Science. Harvard University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780674026889.

Articles from American Scientist

Felice Frankel authored this series of "Sightings" articles for the magazine American Scientist. The topics of each article are listed below.

(Courtesy of American Scientist. Used with permission.)

2003

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.May-June (PDF): Images in science as powerful tools for communication

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.July-August (PDF): Sid Nagel, University of Chicago

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.September-October (PDF): David Kaiser, professor in MIT's Science, Technology, and Society program and a lecturer in phsyics, discusses Richard Feynman's diagrams.

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.November-December (PDF): Oscar Miller, Professor Emeritus in biology at the University of Virginia

2004

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.January-February (PDF): Eric J. Heller, professor of physics and chemistry at Harvard University and his landscape photography

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.March-April (PDF): Ben Fry, doctoral candidate in the Media Laboratory at MIT on visualizing large quantities of data

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.May-June (PDF): Michael Berry, Royal Society research professor in the physics department at the University of Bristol in the U.K.

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.July-August (PDF): John Bush, associate professor of applied mathematics at MIT

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.September-October (PDF): Jeff Hester, professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Arizona State University, discusses an image of stars being birthed in the Eagle Nebula, taken by the Hubble Telescope. 

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.November-December (PDF): First-place illustration from Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge contest

2005

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.January-February (PDF): Frank O'Connell, "How It Works" feature in The New York Times

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.March-April (PDF): Maria Eisner, research scientist at Cornell University

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.May-June (PDF): Don Eigler and Dominique Brodbeck from IBM discussing the image of "orange and blue quantum corrals"

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.July-August (PDF): David Goodsell, research scientist at the Scripps Research Institute

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.September-October (PDF): Donna Cox, professor and director of visualization and experimental technologies at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.November-December (PDF): Chris Hardee, VP of marketing at Omega Optical who created the winning image from the Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge

2006

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.January-February (PDF): Michael Cohen, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research and John Hart, graduate student in mechanical engineering at MIT

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.March-April (PDF): Viktor Koen, Parsons School of Design

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.May-June (PDF): Danielle Cork France, graduate student in biological engineering at MIT

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.July-August (PDF): Alyssa Goodman, professor of astronomy at Harvard University and director of Harvard's Initiative in Innovative Computing

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.September-October (PDF - 1.4MB): Ron Perry of Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories and Sarah Frisken at Tufts University

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.November-December (PDF): W. Paul Brown of the Stanford-NASA National Biocomputation Center, and creator of the winning image from the Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge

2007

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.January-February (PDF): Analyzing and visualizing gene expression during development

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.March-April (PDF): Robert Lue, directs life sciences education at Harvard University

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.May-June (PDF): Richard J. Massey and Lars Lindberg Christensen and astronomy's first maps of the "dark matter" of the cosmos

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.September-October 1 (PDF): Andrea Ottesen, doctoral candidate in the Department of Plant Sciences and Landscape Architecture at the University of Maryland, and the year's winner of the Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.September-October 2 (PDF): Graphic designer Jessica Helfand discusses volvelles, types of slide charts constructed with rotating parts.

2008

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.January-February (PDF): Jeff W. Lichtman, professor of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard University and Jean Livet, a postdoctoral fellow in his lab discuss a new technique for "labeling" neurons