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Suffering Scientists

Horrible Science Series

Author: Nick Arnold

Illustrator: Tony De Saulles

Book 15 in the Horrible Science series

Pages: 224

Published: 2001

Age: 8+

From amazing Aristotle, to dithering Darwin, to incredible Isaac,and courageous Curie - they're all in Suffering Scientists!

This is The Horrible Science Guide to the most influential scientists in history. Readers will discover brilliant breakthroughs, explosive experiments – and some feeble failures. They will find out what made Albert Einstein forget where he lived, which female scientist was chopped up into tiny pieces and why Galileo did a torturous stretch on the rack.

With fantastic fact files, curious quizzes and Tony De Saulles' crazy cartoon illustrations – science has never been so horrible!

About the Horrible Science Series

Books in series order

  1. 1.Blood, Bones and Body Bits(1996)
  2. 2.Ugly Bugs(1996)
  3. 3.Chemical Chaos(1997)
  4. 4.Fatal Forces(1997)
  5. 5.Nasty Nature(1997)
  6. 6.Disgusting Digestion(1998)
  7. 7.Sounds Dreadful(1998)
  8. 8.Vicious Veg(1998)
  9. 9.Bulging Brains(1999)
  10. 10.Evolve or Die(1999)
  11. 11.Frightening Light(1999)
  12. 12.Deadly Diseases(2000)
  13. 13.Shocking Electricity(2000)
  14. 14.Killer Energy(2001)
  15. 15.Suffering Scientists(2001)
  16. 16.Microscopic Monsters(2001)
  17. 17.Body Owner's Handbook(2002)
  18. 18.Terrible Time(2002)
  19. 19.Space, Stars and Slimy Aliens(2003)
  20. 20.Really Rotten Experiments(2004)
  21. 21.Frightful Flight(2004)
  22. 22.Painful Poison(2004)
  23. 23.Angry Animals(2005)
  24. 24.Measly Medicine(2006)
  25. 25.Evil Inventions(2007)
  26. 26.Sick! From Measley Medicine To Savage Surgery(2009)
  27. 27.Wasted World(2009)
  28. 28.House of Horrors(2012)
  29. +How to Draw Horrible Science(2010)
  30. +The Horrible Science of Everything(2008)

Reading age: 8+ years

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Welcome to the explosive world of Horrible Science! It's science with the squishy bits left in.

Most people think that science is serious. Seriously dreary, seriously brain-dead and seriously boring. But most people are wrong. Science isn't boring - it's horrible! And when science is horrible it comes to life in an exciting way . . .