O MG! HOW CHEMISTRY CAME TO BE

This book is a graphic introduction to how chemistry developed, from ancient times to now. Led by cartoon host, Ben Zene — with occasional interjections by eccentric Greek philosopher Democritus — readers learn about ancient Greek and Chinese elements, alchemists, and the development of chemistry as we know it today, from Robert Boyle and Antoine Lavoisier, from Elizabeth Fulhame and John Dalton, to Jöns Jakob Berzelius and Friedrich Wöhler, to Rosalind Franklin, Linus Pauling, and Mario Molina. The book delves into topics like nanochemistry, environmental chemistry, and how the structure of atoms and molecules was uncovered, all with good humor, bright colors, and lively drawings. There are occasional sidebars on chemical-related history and the arts, and factoids such as how President of the USA Herbert Hoover and President of Israel Chaim Weizmann influenced chemistry, how personal politics may have denied Gilbert Lewis the Nobel Prize, a Japanese tale of intrigue mingling with chemistry, and which chemist was the first living person to have an element named for him.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Ancient Times
• Alchemy
• The First Chemists
• La Révolution
• Atoms (Again)
• The Rise of Organic Chemistry
• The Periodic Table
• Molecular Structure
• Physical Chemistry
• Industrial Chemistry
• Chemical Warfare
• Electrons and Protons and Neutrons, Oh My!
• Atomic Structure & Molecular Bonding
• Polymers
• Isotopes and Artificial Elements
• Environmental Chemistry
• Nanochemistry
• Epilogue
• Index

Readership: Chemistry students, teachers and general public.

Key Features:

• History of chemistry is a rare topic, and is now revisited in this book to include women whose contributions were often neglected and ignored, as well as modern topics
• It treats this topic in a graphic-novel form. Comics are a currently popular way to treat history and scientific knowledge
• It is designed for the teen (and perhaps adult)