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Chronobiology
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1 book
58 pages, colour
17.0 x 24.0 cm
Age 13 years and up
- Contact for Foreign Rights: sofielouisedam@live.dk
- Reading sample: PDF in English
Description
This science comic takes you on a time-travelling adventure through the history of research into circadian rhythms and our body’s clock, as we follow the scientist Amy in her most recent experiment. It is made in collaboration with scientists from the NNF Center for Basic Metabolic Research in Copenhagen.
Website: https://www.sofi elouisedam.com/#/tales-from-the-chronobiology-lab/
Kristin Hussey
Kristin Hussey is a historian, curator and science communicator who works on circadian rhythms.For more than three years, she has collaborated with chronobiologists to think about the importance of their research for society. She is currently writing a book on the history of circadian rhythms for Polity Press. In 2021, she was awarded the Whitfield Prize for her first book, Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility and the Making of British Medicine (University of Pittsburgh Press).
Sofie Louise Dam
Sofie Louise Dam is a cartoonist and illustrator, who has worked on graphic novels including This Land is My Land: A Graphic History of Big Dreams, Micronations, and Other Self-Made States and Hviskeleg. She graduated from the Animation Workshop in 2017 and currently works at studio Kulkælderen in Copenhagen.
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