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Our work in Trinity College on the structure and properties of foams was largely inspired by that of C S Smith, whose career is briefly sketched. His “search for structure” led him in many directions. In our case it led us to a new ideal structure for a foam of equal-sized bubbles. This surpasses that of Lord Kelvin, whose proposed structure has been debated and sought in experiment without success since 1887, in that it has a lower surface area.
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Weaire, D. (1996). A search for structure — in the footsteps of Cyril Stanley Smith. In: Ogawa, T., Miura, K., Masunari, T., Nagy, D. (eds) Katachi ∪ Symmetry. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68407-7_12
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