The Naming of Buckminsterfullerene
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman - Continuing Education |
| Discipline(s): |
Architectural Engineering Chemical, Biochemical, Biomolecular Engineering Chemistry Materials Engineering |
| Special Topic(s): |
History of Technology |
| Learning Resource Type: | Reference - Article/Document |
| Media Type: | WWW |
| Author(s): |
E. J. Applewhite
Organization: Buckminster Fuller, Synergetics |
| Description: | This article was first published in The Chemical Intelligencer, July, 1995 (Vol. 1, No. 3). Excerpt: "When Harry Kroto and Richard Smalley, the experimental chemists who discovered C60 named it buckminsterfullerene, they accorded to Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1985), the maverick American engineering and architectural genius, a kind of immortality that only a name can confer - particularly when it links a single historical person to a hitherto unrecognized design that was universal in the material world of nature: the symmetrical molecule C60. Smalley's laboratory equipment could only tell them how many atoms there were in the molecule, not how they were arranged or bonded together. From Fuller's model they intuitcd that the atoms were arrayed in the shape of a truncated icosahedron - a geodesic dome. Only after novel phenomenon or concept is named can it he translated into the common currency of thought and speech." |
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| Keywords: | fullerenes, fullerene compounds, buckyball, Buckminster Fuller |
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| Use of Resource: | Used for history of technology. |
| Difficulty: | Medium |
| Interactivity Level: | Very Low |
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| Publication Date: | 1995 |
| Platform/Format: | WWW |
| Cost: | Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.4dsolutions.net/synergetica/eja1.html |
| Metadata: | IEEE LOM Record |
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