Alan H Schoen: 1924-2023

Click here for an obituary in Physics today for the amazing scientist who gave the world the Gyroid!

Alan Hugh Schoen (1924–2023).
Alan Schoen holds his model of the M4 surface, the precursor to the gyroid, in Primošten, Croatia, in 2011. Robert Corkery is at back left. Credit: Photo courtesy of Tomonari Dotera

Alan’s website (schoengeometry.com), his series of soap film videos from the 1960’s and his reflections about minimal surfaces at the ‘Geometry of Interfaces’ conference tell his own story!

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