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He styled his name as R. Buckminster Fuller in his writings, publishing more than 30 books and coining or popularizing such terms as " Spaceship Earth ", " Dymaxion " e. Fuller developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularized the widely known geodesic dome ; carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their structural and mathematical resemblance to geodesic spheres.

He also served as the second World President of Mensa International from to Fuller was awarded 28 United States patents [ 4 ] and many honorary doctorates. In , he was awarded the Frank P. Brown Medal from The Franklin Institute.

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He was elected an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa in , on the occasion of the year reunion of his Harvard class of from which he had been expelled in his first year. He became a full Academician in , and he received the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects the same year. Fuller was born on July 12, , in Milton, Massachusetts , the son of Richard Buckminster Fuller, a prosperous leather and tea merchant, and Caroline Wolcott Andrews.

He was a grand-nephew of Margaret Fuller , an American journalist, critic, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement. The unusual middle name, Buckminster, was an ancestral family name.