Virus Design, 1955-1962: Science Meets Art

Gregory J. Morgan

8 citations0/0 files storedPhytopathology

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

History of Science and Medicine Philosophy and History of Science Twentieth Century Scientific Developments

Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper traces the beginnings of structural virology in the mid-20th century, focusing especially on the synergy between models of virus structure and models within art, notably Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes and Kenneth Snelson's tensegrity structures. As Donald Caspar and Aaron Klug sought to extend the Crick-Watson theory of spherical virus structure, they explored analogies between biology and architecture, eventually publishing the classic Caspar-Klug theory of virus structure in 1962.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 8 citations exist upstream.

References

1973The Anxiety of Influence 1995The Independent Group: Modernism and Mass Culture in Britain, 1945-1959 2003Historical review: Viruses, crystals and geodesic domes

Cited by

2009Laws of biological design: a reply to John Beatty

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.