Before starting the book

01 Thomas Young: The Genius Experiment, The Double Slit
02 Charles Lyell: The Man Who Revealed the Secrets of the Earth
03 Charles Darwin: The Right to Imagination, the Origins of Controversy
04 Gregor Mendel: The Laws of Inheritance Created with Statistics
05 Louis Pasteur: Benefactor of All
06 August Kekulé: The Snake That Bites Its Tail
07 Dmitry Mendeleev: Orchestra of Beautiful Elements
08 Berzelius and Arrhenius: Ionic Bonds
09 Gilbert Newton Lewis: Covalent Bonds

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“We’ll explain everything ourselves!”
-All the scientists and concepts you need to know, all in one place!
-Understanding the development of science through time, from ancient times to the present.
A science guide for everyone from children to adults

《Science Toon Scientists》 covers 2,500 years of scientific history in chronological order, from the 5th century BC to the 20th century.
The reason we follow the axis of time to understand science is because there have been notable major trends that have shaped the discipline of science from its foundation to its current form.
For example, Aristotle's worldview, which had been intact for nearly 2,000 years, was gradually destroyed by the accumulated observations, experiments, bold claims, and competition of natural scientists, and in the process, astronomy, physics, and chemistry sequentially achieved modern innovation.
Classical physics, established by Newton in the 17th century, became inapplicable, at least in the microscopic world, with the advent of quantum mechanics in the 20th century, and the way to understand the universe could no longer return to the way it was before the advent of the Big Bang theory.
As Newton's "shoulders of giants" symbolizes, scientists have built on the knowledge of their predecessors while constantly updating it, and contemporary scientists have influenced each other to advance science.
By going back in chronological order like this, we can understand scientific knowledge that was scattered across each field within a larger context.

The story, which focuses on the "character" of a scientist, allows readers to broadly enjoy the world of science without the need for complex concepts or prior background knowledge.
It lowers the barrier for those who are not familiar with science, and provides new and rich stories behind the knowledge they already knew.
We follow the lives of scientists, the coincidences and opportunities they encounter at crucial moments in their lives, and naturally encounter their scientific achievements.
When I encounter the moment when the great theories and laws that changed the world are born in the lives of 'humans' who are similar yet different from me, science feels more familiar than before.
《Science Toon Scientists》 is the ultimate science guide that everyone can enjoy, from children to adults, from science beginners to science nerds.

“Easier and more fun with comics!”
_Scientific principles and concepts at a glance with pictures
_50 Scientists with 50 Unique Characters

Artist Kim Jae-hoon, who has provided readers with new intellectual enjoyment by creating intuitive and engaging comics that convey knowledge of humanities such as history, mythology, and philosophy, previously accessible only through text, also demonstrates his outstanding skills on the topic of science.
It maximizes the strengths of comics by clearly explaining difficult scientific principles and concepts through pictures.
Topics that we are familiar with in school, such as the concepts of speed and velocity, changes in the volume of gases, the principles of blood circulation, elements and the periodic table, as well as theories that seem difficult and abstract, such as quantum mechanics, the theory of relativity, and the law of electromagnetic induction, are all melted into a single picture.

The scientists who have been brought back to life as irreplaceable characters are the core charm that makes it impossible to put down "Science Toon Scientists."
Scientist Marie Curie, who broke the rule that one cannot receive a Nobel Prize in two fields and won the Nobel Prize in Physics and Chemistry, and Albert Einstein, who shook up the concept of space and time and published four historic papers in a row in one year…
Figures who marked the decisive moments in the history of science appear one after another.

But even these revolutionary greats, like ordinary people, lived each day with failure, frustration, jealousy, and betrayal, changing the world of science.
Robert Hooke, a salaried scientist whose primary goal was to make a living; Gilbert Newton Lewis, who was at odds with his colleagues and isolated; Rosalind Franklin, who had the crucial evidence for the double helix structure of DNA stolen by a fellow scientist…
The pages turn without a break as the lives of scientists are filled with admiration, laughter, anger, and sadness.
This is the reason and charm of leading the story with scientists as the main characters.

Volume 4: From Darwin to Mendel
_10 heretical sons from the 18th to the 19th centuries
_The Transition in Geology, the Proclamation of Evolution and Genetics

The founders of evolution and genetics explored Earth's distant past and the origins of human existence, making bold and provocative claims! Geology, long held under Christian authority, faced a new turning point, while Darwin's theory of evolution and Mendel's genetics explored the ancient origins and history of life.
Meanwhile, thanks to the active research on chemistry, scientists continued to discover new elements and began to uncover the secrets of chemical bonds, the principle that makes up all substances in the world.
The periodic table created by Mendeleev provided the basic knowledge to understand chemistry and became the compass of modern chemistry.