Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist (1895–1983) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, engineer, author, designer, inventor and futurist.[1]
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Buckminster Fuller | |
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Born | (1895-07-12)July 12, 1895 Milton, Massachusetts, United States |
Died | July 1, 1983(1983-07-01) (aged 87) Los Angeles, United States |
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Spouse | Anne Hewlett (m. 1917) |
Children | 2: Allegra Fuller Snyder and Alexandra, who died in childhood |
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Fuller published more than 30 books, inventing and popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", and "Synergetics".
He also used inventions, mainly architectural designs. The best known of which is the geodesic dome, the pinnacle of which would be a 5 kilometer diameter dome over Manhattan, as well as cloud nine. Carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their resemblance to geodesic spheres.