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Buckminster Fuller

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  1. United States architect who invented the geodesic dome (1895-1983)

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  • It was a shape which inspired all sorts of philosophical and scientific speculations (Kepler's cosmography, the carbon atom, Buckminster Fuller's geodesic structures ...), and the art department constructed models of various sizes which were set in African and lunar landscapes. Tin
  • On the first page of the Catalog, the full corpus of Fuller's works was generously presented under the inscription: “the insights of Buckminster Fuller initiated this catalog.
  • Wesleyan brought Barlow in contact with such luminaries as John Cage, Buckminster Fuller and Jerzy Kosinski.
  • Named after the architect Buckminster Fuller, whose geodesic dome the fullerene resembles, the sturdy carbon molecule (also nicknamed buckyball) has emerged as one of the most versatile tools in the rapidly developing nanotechnology arsenal. Tiny Weapons With Giant Potential
  • R. Buckminster Fuller was a twentieth century scientist, philosopher, inventor, and was also named a great architect.
  • The Nobel prize was awarded in 1996 to their discoverers, who had formally named the molecule buckminsterfullerene for its resemblance to the geodesic domes of architect R. Buckminster Fuller.
  • In the words of Buckminster Fuller, 'If the success or failure of this planet, and of human beings, depended on how I am and what I do, how would I be?
  • This leaves out of account the eight live musicians, whose sound is amplified so as to move directionally around the circular auditorium; Carl Fillion's Buckminster Fuller-inspired "skeletal substructure of a huge turtle," a latticed dome that supports all sorts of gymnastic maneuvres; the projections onto the plastron underside of the "turtle," which culminate in projections of swimmers, who then appear to emerge from it — in person, as it were. 'Totem' Should Top the Polls
  • R. Buckminster Fuller was a twentieth century scientist, philosopher, inventor, and was also named a great architect.
  • Not just any carbon molecule, but a "buckyball" -- 60 carbon atoms arranged in the shape of a soccer ball, with the same structure as the geodesic dome popularized by Buckminster Fuller. Get Ready For Nanotechnology
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