Video: Kenneth Libbrecht: snow under the microscope
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The popularity of the American Kenneth Libbrecht all over the world was brought about by winter, or rather by such a necessary attribute as snow. The epigraph to his work is the words of Henry David Thoreau: “The air in which they arise is filled with creative genius. I would hardly have admired more, even if real stars had fallen on my coat. Guess what this is about? Right. About snowflakes!
Kenneth Libbrecht was born in 1958 in Fargo, North Dakota. And he is not a photographer, as it might seem at first glance, but a scientist. Kenneth is a professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology. At the beginning of his career, our hero was interested in astronomy, but his latest research is devoted to the study of the qualities of ice crystals, and especially the structure of snowflakes. It was as an addition to Kenneth's professional research that several popular books were published, illustrated with photographs of snowflakes of a wide variety of shapes and sizes.
Most snowflakes have six-sided symmetry, although there are specimens with both three and twelve sides. But seeing a crystal with four, five or eight sides is impossible, Kenneth assures us. According to the author, the most ideal snowflakes in shape can be found when there is a small snowball and a light wind blows, and the weather is especially cold.
The popularity of Kenneth's work is further evidenced by the fact that four of his photographs were selected by the US Postal Service as designs for stamps issued for the 2006 Winter Holidays. The total circulation of stamps was about three billion copies.
“Every snowfall is an adventure for the photographer, because they all bring different crystals,” says Kenneth Libbrecht. "And it's true - no two snowflakes are alike." Well, if so, then we can confidently assert two things: the author is provided with work for life, and his creations can be viewed endlessly.
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