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Philosophical Magazine Volume 93, 2013 - Issue 31-33: International Workshop on Packing Problems
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A commentary on the historical background to the modern study of foam structures

Denis WeaireSchool of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.Correspondence[email protected]
Pages 4132-4137 | Received 20 Dec 2012, Accepted 17 Apr 2013, Published online: 16 May 2013
 
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Abstract

We tell the story of two iconic and almost simultaneous experiments, in which Cyril Stanley Smith and William Lawrence Bragg created the 2D soap froth and the 2D soap bubble raft, respectively.

Acknowledgements

DW acknowledges funding from the European Space Agency (MAP AO-99-108:C14914/02/NL/SH and AO-99-075:C14308/00/NL/SH) and Science Foundation Ireland (08-RFP-MTR1083).

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