Advances in materials characterization approaches are providing unprecedented insight into material structure and behavior. These approaches underpin all materials discoveries while providing images of a world not visible to the naked eye. Although the images created are of great significance to the world of science, they can also be objects of beauty and art.
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a special feature of the 2005 MRS Spring Meeting in
San Francisco, we conducted a "Science as Art" competition.
It complemented Symposium
X presentations on materials used for flavors, fragrances,
and art. It also coincided with the opening, in San Francisco,
of an exhibition of sculpture highlighting the interplay
between art and science. |
The
competition was open to all meeting attendees, with entries
on display in Moscone West. We had several
levels of judging; one by the conference chairs, a second
by a panel of symposium organizers, and a third by all
attendees. Three $400 awards were presented to
the winning entries at the meeting with no more than one
award per entry.
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