Two of Ottaviani's most recent works Levitation and Wire Mothers (published July 2007) are the beginning of a planned series on "the science of the unscientific." Levitation the physical and psychological aspects of stage magic. The company's name is an homage to General Techtronics Labs, the fictional company where comic book character Peter Parker was bitten by the radioactive spider that led to his becoming Spider-Man. These works are all self-published by Ottaviani's own company, G. Since the publication of Two-Fisted Science, Ottaviani has gone on to write several other comic books about scientists, including Dignifying Science (about women scientists), Fallout (about the creation of the atomic bomb), Suspended in Language (about physicist Niels Bohr) and Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards (about nineteenth century paleontologists). That project expanded to include other stories from the history of science to become the graphic novel Two-Fisted Science, including stories written by Ottaviani and illustrated by a variety of artists. In discussing the book with comic book artist Steve Lieber, the two decided to write and illustrate a famous meeting between physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg during World War II. Ottaviani's interest in writing science-related comics was inspired by Richard Rhodes's book The Making of the Atomic Bomb. He now works at the University of Michigan Library as coordinator of Deep Blue, the university's institutional repository. He spent several years working as a reference librarian at Michigan's Media Union Library. in information and library studies from Michigan in 1992. Intrigued by the research component of his job, Ottaviani began taking library science courses at Drexel University, and in 1990 he enrolled in the Library and Information Science program at the University of Michigan. He worked for several years retrofitting and fixing nuclear power plants. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1986, followed by a master's degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Michigan in 1987. Ottaviani has a background in science, earning a B.S. He is also a librarian and has worked as a nuclear engineer. His best-known work, Two-Fisted Science: Stories About Scientists, features biographical stories about Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Niels Bohr, and several stories about physicist Richard Feynman. Jim Ottaviani is an American writer who is the author of several comic books about the history of science. Steve Lieber, Leland Myrick, Leland Purvis, Bernie Mireault, Zander Cannon, Kevin Cannon Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and the Political Science of the Atomic Bombĭignifying Science: Stories about Women Scientists, Feynman
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