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Most of the contents of this book have been previously published and copyrighted by the
following periodicals: Air & Space, American Scientist, Clinical Chemistry News,
Discover, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Johns Hopkins Magazine, Natural History,
Physics Today, Science, Sky & Telescope, The New Yorker, and Today's Chemist at Work.

Special thanks to Ed Ferman, who has occasionally hired Dr. Quark as a consultant.

1996 by Springer Science+Business Media New York

Originally published by Copernicus in 1996

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Harris, Sidney.
Einstein atomized : more science cartoons / Sidney Harris.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-387-94665-8 ISBN 978-1-4612-0753-5 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4612-0753-5
1. Science-Caricatures and cartoons. 2. American wit and humor,
Pictorial. 1. Title.
NC1429.H33315A4 1996
741.5'973-dc20 96-2616

Printed on acid-free paper.

987 6 5 4 3 2 1

ISBN 978-0-387-94665-8 SPIN 10524006

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