From amazing Aristotle, to dithering Darwin, to incredible Isaac, and courageous Curie - they're all in Suffering Scientists!

This is the "Horrible Science" guide to the most influential scientists in history.

Readers will discover brilliant breakthroughs, explosive experiments - and some feeble failures.

They will find out what made Albert Einstein forget where he lived, which female scientist was chopped up into tiny pieces and why Galileo did a torturous stretch on the rack.

With fantastic fact files, curious quizzes and Tony De Saulles' crazy cartoon illustrations - science has never been so horrible.