Gallery: The Designer Who Peered Into Microscopes and Saw High Art

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    *Archetype of Individuality*, 1933
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    *Diatoms Actinoptychus heliopelta*, 1928
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    *Conical Shape (Crystal of Said Hippuric Acid Compound)*, 1927
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    *Diatoms (Triceratium favus)*, 1930
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    *Butterfly (Red Admiral), Scales on Wing (Ala papilionis)*, 1928
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    *Notched Butterfly Proboscis (Macroglossa stellatarum L.)*, 1928
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    *Finale (Other Title: End Time - Melancholy)*, 1959
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    *The insect trachea illustrated here are only one of many kinds of adaptive adjustments to increased size found in large organisms (Life: 1957)*, 1937
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    *Chewing Stomach of Kitchen-schabe, Cockroach*, 1928
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    *Lead. Marks of Rilling Machine*, 1952
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    *Mature Condition, Ovary of a Butterfly*, 1927
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    *Plankton. Upper: Algae colony (Asterionella), lower: 2 Volvox colonies*, 1952
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    *Alga-Freshwater (Alge Spirogyra setiformis)*, 1928
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    *Square Form of a Diatom*, 1929
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    *Anchor's Composition (Synapta)*, 1952
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