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10. BUCKMINSTERFULLERENE
"Buckyballs" are those little soccer ball shapes made of 60 carbon atoms, which you've likely heard of. But I bet you didn't know that, if you make a 3D crystal of buckyballs the Fermi surface looks like this:

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2020-12-16

in 1943 was American chemist Richard Smalley. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Harry Kroto and Robert Curl for their discovery of buckminsterfullerene or "buckyballs". There are 3 entries in the PDB with buckyballs! Find them at https://t.co/aNHm3pLY6x

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2020-06-13

Reminds me of this classic 1964 portrait of Buckminster Fuller by Boris Artzybasheff. Love how both artists incorporate the subject's work into the illustration.

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2019-10-03