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100 years after Marie Curie was given her first Nobel Prize we celebrate the International Year of Chemistry. We have the rare chance of rediscovering a science that shapes our everyday life more than others: thanks to chemistry lipstick lasts for hours, we have pneumatics for any weather, we can cure colds with a pastille, and we know why mayonnaise sometimes turns into a mess.
On the other hand, history of chemistry may be read as the story of man’s relationship with nature, and then with matter, deeper and deeper, until we get to the inside of the atoms. Therefore not only our lives are filled with ideas that come from chemistry, but our imagery as well. And in a few pages this book tells this long tale in an extremely simplified way, narrating the discoveries, the protagonists and the main events, with interdisciplinary incursions about the influence of chemistry in art and literature.

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Maria Chiara Montani has a background in chemistry. After specializing in science communication, she worked as a science writer and in school publishing. She is the author of History of Atom Models and of A little history of chemistry, both published by Alpha Test.