No Joke: Chemistry Thesis Transmuted Into Comic Book

As thesis writing approached, University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student Veronica Berns faced a conundrum. She knew how hard it was to describe her work to friends and family -- indeed, anybody outside the tight clan of structural chemists. And that was particularly true since she concentrated on a category of should-be-impossible structures called "quasicrystals." However, Berns liked drawing and using "normal, English-language words," and so about a year before graduation, she opted to accompany her traditional Ph.D. thesis with a comic book version, "Atomic Size Matters."

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