Fuller, Richard

Fuller, Richard Buckminster (1895-1983) is the architect and inventor of the geodesic dome, which resembles the structure of Cgo shown in Figure 7.16a. Cgo is often referred to as the buckyball. 

Richards, M.P., Fuller, B.T. and Hedges, R.E.M. (2001). Sulphur isotopic variation in ancient bone collagen from Europe implications for human palaeodiet, residence mobility, and modem pollutant studies. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 191 185-190. 

Richards, M.P., Mays, S. and Fuller, B.T. (2002). Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values of bone and teeth reflect weaning age at the Medieval Wharram Percy site, Yorkshire UK. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 119 205-210. 

Another form of carbon was discovered by a group of scientists in 1985. Harry Kroto,Rich SmaUey, and Bob Curl called their discovery a buckminsterfullerene, or buckybaU, named after architect Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895—1983) for the dome-shaped buildings he designed. In a buckybaU,... 

Cgg was named buckminsterfullerene, in honor of the visionary American architect Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983). Fuller is known for developing and promoting the geodesic dome, which resembles. (Buckminsterfullerene molecules are also sometimes called buckyballs.) Later, researchers discovered this molecule belongs to a family of related carbon structures, which have become known as fuller-enes. The smallest fullerene is containing 20 carbon atoms. 

This polymorph of carbon was only discovered in 1985 by Sir Harry Kroto at the University of Sussex while looking for carbon chains. It is made by passing an electric arc between two carbon rods in a partial atmosphere of helium. Kroto was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1996, along with two American researchers (Robert F.Curl Jr. and Richard E.Smalley). The molecule has the formula Ceo and has the same shape as a soccer ball—a truncated icosahedron it takes its name from the engineer and philosopher Buckminster Fuller who discovered the architectural principle of the hollow geodesic dome that this molecule resembles (a geodesic dome was built for EXPO 67 in Montreal). The structure is depicted in Figure 6.14. 

Richard M. Gross I think industry is unanimously struggling to understand what we can do not just to help at the undergraduate level but to help all kids have a fuller appreciation of science earlier in life. Quite frankly, my biggest concern is not with finding future employees. 

One of the most elegant classes of molecules is that of the fullerenes, which are carbon compounds in the form of hollow spheres, constructed of twelve five-sided faces and different numbers of six-sided faces. The smallest fullerene has thirty-two carbon atoms the larger ones have several hundred carbon atoms. The first fullerene was discovered in 1985, by two Americans, Richard Smalley (1943-) and Robert Curl (1933-), and an English chemist, Harry Kroto (1939-). The fullerene with sixty carbon atoms, C60, has a structure similar to the geodesic dome invented by the architect Buckminster Fuller. In a whimsical tribute, the whole class of substances was named after the American architect, and his whole name was used for C60, buckminsterfullerene, or, as it is cheerfully known, the buckyball. Fullerenes are stable and can trap other atoms or small molecules inside their spheres. We have scarcely begun to discover their potential uses. 

The name buckminsterfullerene was given to this molecule by Kroto due to his knowledge of art and architecture, he noticed that the structure of the molecule was the same as that of the geodesic domes popularized by the famous architect Richard Buckminster Fuller. Over the years, a simphfied version of this name - fullerene - became popular. 

Buckminsterfullerene is named afterthe American inventor and architect Richard Buckminster Fuller, who designed the structures known as geodesic domes . 

Structure of Buckminsterfullerene, a spherical molecule with the formula Ceo, so named in honor of the geodesic domes of Richard Buckminster Fuller, which they resemble). We also need hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, a non-negligible dose of phosphorus, as well as some sulfur. 

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