Suspended in Language

“Not often in life has a human being caused me such joy by his mere presence as you did.”
– Albert Einstein, in a 1920 letter to Bohr

When you think about atoms, chances are you think of Niels Bohr’s model. But beyond that model (which he soon left behind…since it’s wrong!) his life and discoveries blazed the trail from a world without cars or radio, much less airplanes and television, to one of space travel and the World Wide Web.

Einstein looked up to him, the Nazis wanted to kidnap him, his institute in Copenhagen hosted just about every Nobel prize winner in physics you can name (and then some), and Winston Churchill considered him by far the most dangerous man on the Manhattan Project. His friends and enemies agreed: Niels Bohr was much more than the father of quantum mechanics — he was one of the most important figures of the twentieth century. Suspended in Language tells his story.

About the storytellers: Suspended in Language features art by award-winning artist Leland Purvis, a member of the ACT-I-VATE group and Deep Six. He’s the author of the acclaimed series Vox and Pubo. It also features footnotes illustrated by Jay Hosler (Clan Apis, The Sandwalk Adventures), Roger Langridge (Fred the Clown), Steve Leialoha (Fables), Linda Medley (Castle Waiting), and Jeff Parker (The Interman, Agents of Atlas, and many others).

In addition to being the author of the New York Times #1 Bestseller Feynman, all of Jim Ottaviani‘s books have been nominated for multiple awards, including Eisners & ALA Popular Paperback of the Year. They also receive critical praise in publications ranging (widely!) from The New York Review of Books to The Comics Journal to Physics World to Entertainment Weekly to Discover Magazine.