DAMN PARTICLES: Physics Cartoons by Sidney Harris

by Sidney Harris, Arthur W. Wiggins (Foreword)

Hans Geiger, counting.A string-theory quartet.Cleaning the clean room.A physics haiku in Chinese."Damn Particles", 145 cartoons about physics, is the second book in a limited series of cartoon collections on the individual sciences by S. Harris ("Eureka! Details to Follow", the chemistry collection, was the first) The cartoons of S. Harris have appeared in periodicals for many years and he has had more than twenty collections of his cartoons published. Most of the cartoons in this book have been previously published in magazines including American Scientist, Chronicle of Higher Education, Discover, Physics Today, Science, Scientific American, The New Yorker and Today's Chemist, and many have been reprinted in textbooks and hung on lab doors and bulletin boards around the world.

153 pages, Paperback

Published September 30, 2019

About the author

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Sidney Harris, a.k.a. S. Harris, is an American cartoonist who draws cartoons about science, mathematics, and technology.
Harris was born in Brooklyn, New York on May 8, 1933, and obtained his degree from Brooklyn College. He then attended the Art Students League in New York before beginning his career as a science cartoonist in 1955.
Harris's cartoons have appeared in numerous scientific journals as well as general-audience magazines. Over 600 of his cartoons were published by American Scientist. Other appearances include Science, Current Contents, Discover, Physics Today, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Harvard Business Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Chicago, Playboy and National Lampoon. Harris has had more than 20 cartoon collections published, and a traveling exhibit of his work has appeared in many museums.
Harris was elected as the 19th honorary member of Sigma Xi, a scientific honor society, in 1997.