Architecture and Chemistry
Richard Buckminster Fuller (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an american architect, designer and considered as a visionary.
He claimed that the natural analytic geometry of the universe was based on arrays of tetrahedra.
The most famous project developed by Fuller was indubitably his geodesic domes.
When Kroto and Smalley discovered in 1985 for the first time these molecules composed entirely of carbon, in the form of hollow sphere, there was a striking similarity in shape between the objets developed by Fuller and these kind of molecules.
And it was naturally that this compounds from this date were named fullerenes, it was a sort of tribute to his genius.
