His thesis was about pollution by pesticides. He graduated in 1971.

The degree thesis opened with a cartoon of Robert Cobb.

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Luca Novelli started to work for magazines in 1968 with articles and cartoons.

The first book of Luca Novelli was "Gli edenisti" in 1975.

In the same year he creates "Il laureato", a comic strip for newspapers.  

The first popular science book was

"Viaggio al centro della cellula", (Trip into the cell)

published in 1978

in Italy and in Mexico (Editorial Nueva Imagen).

In 1983 he wrote and drawed "The first book about computer"

(Mondadori, in Italy), first of four volumes.

Theese books were published in USA by Microsoft Press

and translated in other 16 languages . 

In 1989, for "Progetto Cultura Montedison" - rcs/Milano Libri, he wrote

"The History of Chemistry" and "The Natural History",

illustrated by Cinzia Ghigliano.

Theese books were translated in Greece and France.

Series of tables were exhibited at

Natural History Museum in Milan in 1990.

Luca Novelli has been working for the Italian television

since 1986 as scientific consultant.

In 1992 he wrote a book about his profession,

where he explains the work

of 8 friend-colleagues: Altan, Cavandoli,

Johonny Hart, Quino, Mordillo, Stano

Kochan, Ro Marcenaro,Ziraldo. 

For 1992 to 2002 he has been editor of G&D,

Graphic-Design magazine.

In 1993 he created the character of Albert Einstein' s clone. The little book

"Ci vuole una fisica bestiale" (You need a massive physique)

in Italy sold 100.000 copies.

The text of the second book, " Ho clonato lo zio Alberto" (I have cloned uncle Albert)

is used for a theater play.

In 1998 Luca Novelli created the book series for rcs/fabbri

"The DNA gang ". It is also a tv cartoon project with Michel Fuzellier (co-author)

and De Mas & partners (as producer).

In 2000 for Editoriale Scienza

he planned the series Lampi di Genio

(Flashes of genius):

the first has been

EIN STEIN e le macchine del tempo

( Einstein and the time machines), biography of the

father of modern physics.

The serie continues with the biographies of

Darwin, Galileo, Volta, Archimede,Mendel, Leonardo,

Edison, Ippocrate, Lavoisier(already published), Marie Curie, Pasteur, Newton, Marconi...

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 Luca Novelli lives and works in Milan. He has been living many years in 5 Terre cultivating lemmons, oranges, grapes. He cooperates with Wwf and environmental associations.

In 2004 he started the Darwin2 Project, remake of the voyage around the world made by Darwin on board at the Beagle between 1831 and 1836.

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