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Article: The Artistry of Molecules: Beauty, Daunting Intricacy;NIH Displays Work by Magazine Illustrator Geis
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- The Washington Post
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- May 1, 1989
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What Leonardo da Vinci and Andreas Vesalius did for the young
science of anatomy with their exquisite drawings of the human body,
New York artist Irving Geis hopes to do for molecular science.
Geis is an anatomist of molecules. For more than 35 years, ever
since scientists first began to understand how the building blocks of
the universe fit together, he has been drawing and painting their
intricate structures.
It is at least as true of life's molecules as it is of bodily
anatomy that function follows form. The detailed shapes of the
complex molecules in cells absolutely determine their ability to
perform the metabolic functions that yield life.
Geis' work is most familiar to readers of ...