女博士自绘漫画版化学论文

Late last spring, a doctoral student worked late into the night. As she doodled, her chemistry thesis took on a life of its own, transforming into a comic book.

去年春末，一位博士生常常忙到深夜。经过她的妙笔，她的化学论文以自己的方式“活了起来”，变成了一本连环漫画。
Veronica Berns, 28, was working on her Ph. D. in chemistry at the University of Wisconsin -Madison. Berns said she long struggled to explain her work to her parents and friends. The self-described comic book fan said she began drafting her thesis on quasicrystals — a subset of crystals that diverge from the usual structural characteristics of crystals. Berns quickly concluded that she would be best able to describe the oddball compounds with illustrations.
28岁的维罗妮卡·伯恩斯是威斯康辛大学麦迪逊分校的一名化学博士生。伯恩斯说，她曾长期苦于向父母和朋友解释自己的专业。当她开始起草关于准晶体的论文时，自称漫画迷的她很快意识到她可以通过绘图的方式更好的讲解这些古怪的化合物。准晶体是一种从普通晶体分化出来的子晶体。
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"They're not very well-polished illustrations. That's on purpose," Berns said. "I wanted it to be like I'm explaining on the back of an envelope."

“它们不是画功一流的图画，而是功能性更强。”伯恩斯说，“我一度想让它起到这样的作用——就像我在信封的背面画图向人们解释化学一样。”
And on many occasions, it was on the back of an envelope or on a napkin that she doodled sketches of the chemical bonds to better show her parents what she was working on in the lab. Jody Berns, Veronica's mother, said their family has a history of doodling and has shared comics for years.
以前的很多时候，她就是通过在信封或者餐巾纸的背面画化学键的草图，向父母解释她在实验室里的工作。维罗妮卡的母亲乔迪·伯恩斯说，她们家一直有涂鸦的传统，很多年来大家都一起看各种漫画。
Berns surprised her family with her comic book "Atomic Size Matters" at her graduation last year. The book depicts cartoons of Berns wearing various costumes and uses humor as well as simple comparisons to describe elaborate chemistry.
在去年的毕业典礼上，伯恩斯以漫画书《原子大小的重要性》给了家人意外的惊喜。在这本书里，伯恩斯自己的漫画形象以不同的行头出镜，用幽默诙谐、简单类比的方式向人们描述复杂的化学。

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