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My interactions with Gyorgy Kepes (1906–2001) followed from my first edited volume on symmetry. He immigrated to America from Hungary in 1937 and spelled his first name as Gyorgy. He was a design scientist and artist, wrote much about art theory, and was Professor of Design at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His book series, Vision + Value, served as a model when I embarked on organizing the Symmetry: Unifying Human Understanding volumes. At the time, I was a visiting professor at the University of Connecticut in 1983–1985, the first year in the Department of Physics and the second year in the Department of Chemistry.
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Hargittai, I. (2020). Gyorgy Kepes. In: Mosaic of a Scientific Life. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34766-6_18
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