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Makers of Unique Display at DePauw Help "Breathe New Life Into Periodic Table"

Makers of Unique Display at DePauw Help "Breathe New Life Into Periodic Table"

September 21, 2006

September 21, 2006, Greencastle, Ind. - Theo Gray and Max Whitby "built a beautiful, wall-sized Periodic Table cabinet with samples of all the elements and a computerized informational display for a new science building wing at DePauw University in Indiana, which led to a thriving little side business making less elaborate versions for schools and corporations," notes an article in the News-Gazette of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. "They also were hired by the Discovery Channel to create a series of short video segments on elements, showing them off and highlighting their interesting properties," adds the newspaper.

The story describes how Gray, co-founder of Wolfram Research, has now created a poster of the Periodic Table. Greg Kline writes, "When Gray went public with the poster on popular science- and technology-oriented Web sites Slashdot and Boing Boing just before Labor Day, orders started rolling in, so many that he took a bath on his offer to ship it anywhere in the world at a cut rate. (He's since adjusted the shipping fee for overseas orders.)"

Access the story, headlined "Wolfram co-founder breathes new life into Periodic Table," at the newspaper's Web site.

The News-Gazette first reported on the Periodic Table display at DePauw -- which is on the third level of the Percy Lavon Julian Science and Mathematics Center overlooking the atrium -- in 2003. Access the previous story here.

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