Fuller, Buckminster
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Birthname | Richard Buckminster Fuller | ||||
born on | 12 July 1895 at 00:45 (= 12:45 AM ) | ||||
Place | Milton, Massachusetts, 42n15, 71w04 | ||||
Timezone | EST h5w (is standard time) | ||||
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Biography
American scientist, the brilliant engineer-inventor of the Geodesic dome which combines a series of tetrahedron skeletons, a writer and lecturer. Labeled both a crackpot and a genius, he was awarded nearly 40 honorary degrees from universities in the U.S. and the UK and was the author of 20 books, including his perhaps best-known work, "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth," 1970.
The son of a Boston tea merchant, Fuller attended Harvard for one year before being expelled for cutting classes. He met Anne Hewlitt in 1914 and after serving for three years as a Navy Officer, they married. When they lost their first child to pneumonia, he considered suicide. After working in his father-in-laws construction business for a half dozen years, he took his wife and second child to a poor section of Chicago and began to develop his radical theories and original designs. In his lifetime he held more than 2,000 patents. He and his family lived precariously, as he once said, "With enough money for a bowl of soup." His last 30 years were more comfortable, with lecture tours and teaching.
Bucky, as he was affectionately known, died of a heart attack on 1 July 1983 while at the hospital visiting his ailing wife in Los Angeles, California.
Relationships
- friend relationship with Bacon, Edmund (born 2 May 1910)
- has other family relationship with Fuller, Margaret (born 23 May 1810). Notes: Grand nephew/ Grand aunt
Events
Source Notes
Frances McEvoy quotes him when she pressed him for the time.
(Formerly, LMR quotes date from him in a letter, "time unknown, perhaps morning.")
Fadi Mazboudi rectified to 1.11.00 EST Asc 3Gem55', Starkman reached to the same rectified birth time. [1]
Categories
- Traits : Mind : Education extensive (Over 40 honorary degrees)
- Traits : Mind : Exceptional mind (Genius)
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Heart disease/attack (Terminal)
- Family : Parenting : Kids -Traumatic event (First child died of pneumonia)
- Lifestyle : Financial : On the edge (Not much money)
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 87)
- Vocation : Building Trades : Construction work (Construction business a few years)
- Vocation : Education : Public speaker (Lecture tours)
- Vocation : Education : Teacher
- Vocation : Military : Military service (Three years Naval officer)
- Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction
- Notable : Famous : Founder/ originator (Geodesic dome among 2,000 inventions)
- 1895 births
- Birthday 12 July
- Birthplace Milton, MA (US)
- Sun 19 Cancer
- Moon 17 Pisces
- Asc 25 Taurus
- 1983 deaths
- Traits : Mind : Education extensive
- Traits : Mind : Exceptional mind
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Heart disease/attack
- Family : Parenting : Kids -Traumatic event
- Lifestyle : Financial : On the edge
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs
- Vocation : Building Trades : Construction work
- Vocation : Education : Public speaker
- Vocation : Education : Teacher
- Vocation : Military : Military service
- Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction
- Notable : Famous : Founder/ originator