Artful foams: in memoriam Cyril Stanley Smith

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• Denis Weaire (Trinity College Dublin)
• Tuesday 28 November 2017, 10:10-10:50
• Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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GFSW04 - Form in art, toys and games

Cyril Stanley Smith was a distinguished metallurgist who eventually left that discipline to pursue a wider interest in science and technology, and their relation to art. He was critical of his contemporaries, as being too preoccupied with thepursuit of perfect idealised order. Although his ideas were tentative he was(like D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson) a prophet. As such he inspired others,including the present speaker, who will describe his adventures with foam (afavourite prototype of Smith), taking him into art and architecture as Smith would have liked – for scientists, he said, should be playful.

This talk is part of the Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series series.

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