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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