A month-by-month tour of the most beautiful and fascinating elements in the periodic table Based on the best-selling book The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe as well as the best-selling iPad app.
Every month shows a full-page, stunning photograph of a featured element in its pure form and offers an interesting and informative anecdote. Smaller images of the element and of compounds are set within the monthly calendar grid, which includes important dates in chemical history and also major North American, British, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand holidays.
It’s a delightful gift for scientists, students, teachers, or anyone interested in the diversity, power, and splendor of nature’s elements. This calendar marries scientific passion with an artistic sensibility.
Theodore Gray is the author of 'The Elements' and 'Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do at Home-But Probably Shouldn't', and of Popular Science magazine's 'Gray Matter' column. He is the proprietor of periodictable.com and the creator of the iconic photographic periodic table poster seen in universities, schools, museums, and on TV shows from 'MythBusters' to 'Hannah Montana'. In his other life, he is co-founder of the software company Wolfram Research, creators of the world's leading technical software system, Mathematica®, and WolframlAlphaTM. He lives in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.