As one of the worlds leading science photographers, Felice Frankel combines a scholars knowledge of science, a photographers skill for visualization, and a designers intuitive sense of aesthetics.

In Envisioning Science: The Design and Craft of the Science Image, she suggests that the methods scientists use in representing visual data should be fully documented, just as those for gathering non-visual data are. Its time that graphics and images are taken just as seriously as explanation with text, Frankel says. The reader must be provided with a visual history illustrating how the data was translated into its published form. Here, a 3-cm drop of ferrofluid sits on a glass slide while a slip of yellow paper lays below the slide and a set of seven small circular magnets under the paper affects the form of the drop.

Can the science community keep students interested with alluring images? I think its finally beginning to happen, she says.

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