Felice frankel biography for kids

Felice Frankel is an American researcher and photographer of scientific images. She has received multiple awards, both for the aesthetic quality of her science photographs and for her ability to effectively communicate complicated scientific information in images.^[1]

Early life and education

Born in Brooklyn, Felice Frankel attended Midwood High School and then Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (CUNY), where she majored in biology.

She became an architectural photographer.^[2]: xii

Career redirection

In 1991–1992, she was awarded a Loeb Fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Unlike many of her visual design colleagues, she decided to return to her scientific roots, auditing a class in chemistry taught by professor George M. Whitesides. Working with one of his postdocs, Nick Abbott, they collaboratively produced a striking image that was selected for the cover of the professional journal