Theodore Gray

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Theodore W. Gray is one of the founders of Wolfram Research and is currently Wolfram's Director of User Interface Technology.

He created a wooden periodic table^[1] with compartments for each of the elements. This table won him an Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

He writes a regular column for Popular Science entitled "Gray Matter."^[2] Additionally, he wrote the introduction to Michael Swanwick's The Periodic Table of Science Fiction.

[edit] See also

• Ig Nobel Prize Winners
• Stephen Wolfram

[edit] References

1. ^ Wooden periodic table
2. ^ Gray Matter, Popular Science.

[edit] External links

• Personal website.
• Periodictable.com
• "Theodore Gray: Element enthusiast talks about making a periodic table for the 21st century" by Bethany Halford. C&EN, 26 November 2007, page 50.
• Periodic Table display makes the elements more than elemental by Greg Kline, The News-Gazette, November 27, 2003.
• Science Friday interview with Theodore Gray, July 2002.
• Steve Jobs's Apple Keynote Speech, Theodore Gray appearance, 2005.
• The 2002 Ig Nobel Prize Winners