Buckminster Fuller
JUL 12, 2016
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.031262
Today is the birthday of Buckminster Fuller, who was born on this date in 1895 in Milton, Massachusetts. Fuller was an architect who is most well-known for popularizing the geodesic lattice of interlocking icosahedrons as an architectural style. Carbon molecules with a similar structure were named fullerenes in his honor, with the 60 atom spherical molecule being dubbed buckminsterfullerene, or popularly, “bucky balls.”
Date in History: 12 July 1892
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