Historical Figure
Buckminster Fuller
d. 1983
American philosopher, architect and inventor (1895–1983)
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Death
1983 July 1, 1983 →Biography
Richard Buckminster Fuller Jr. was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist. He styled his name as R. Buckminster Fuller in his writings, publishing more than 30 books and coining or popularizing such terms as "Spaceship Earth", "Dymaxion", "ephemeralization", "synergetics", and "tensegrity".
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Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.
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