Word: ellipsoid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bohr Institute, *and Rainwater, of Columbia University, were cited for their 1940s and 1950s research on the inner structure of the atom. They helped explain oddities in the nucleus' behavior by showing that its myriad components spun and vibrated so as to distort the nucleus into an unexpected ellipsoid, rather than a sphere. These new insights helped set the stage for many of the important advances in particle physics during the past two decades of experimentation...
...Italian master draftsman. Alberto Giacometti. Giacometti's portraits appear layered; white lines contouring a head on a dark background seem to be a stack of negatives. Naum Gabo also emphasizes space, but he works with three-dimensional materials. By winding strings around transparent plastic, he defines an ellipsoid within a rectangular boundary. As Picasso took the viewer through space with uncanny juxtapositions of his subject's position. Gabo constructs his space by pulling us into the elliptical void as well as asking us to follow the contours formed by the elegant curves of the plastic thread that area from...