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Back cover 'Illingworth offers six beautifully wrought biographies - finding humour, lyricism and humanity in the lives and work of these six scientist-poets.' <b>Alice Roberts</b>, author of <i>The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being </i>and presenter of<i> Digging for Britain, Coast </i>and<i> Time Team</i> 'This excellent book is a creative collision of Hadron-like proportion, scattering fragments of intellectual curiosity, fluency and unpretentiousness across every page. One of my "discoveries" of 2019.' <b>Lemn Sissay</b>, MBE 'Hard to put down! A fascinating book full of comprehensive biographies showing the development of and influences on the poet scientist, illustrated with generous amounts of poetry!' <b>Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell</b> 'A wonderfully eclectic and uplifting collection celebrating how some of the most remarkable stories of scientific endeavour are fuelled by poetic imagining, and revealing how the gaps between well-worn facts are often infused with things poetical. Great stuff!' <b>Iain Stewart</b>, Professor of Geoscience Communication, Director, Sustainable Earth Institute, University of Plymouth and Presenter on BBC Science Flap 1 (left) <b>Sam Illingworth</b> is a senior lecturer in Science Communication, where his research involves using poetry to develop dialogue between scientists and non-scientists, especially amongst traditionally under-served and under-represented audiences. Sam is also an award-winning poet who has worked with organisations from the Royal Society and the British Science Association to the Royal Shakespeare Company and Green Man Festival to bring together science and poetry for diverse audiences across the world. You can find out more about Sam and his work by visiting his website: www.samillingworth.com, or by following him on Twitter @samillingworth. Flap 2 (right) <i>A sonnet to science</i> presents an account of six ground-breaking scientists who also wrote poetry. From Ada Lovelace and James Clerk Maxwell to Mirosl