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Science: Theodore Gray: 'The Elements'

Anyone whos walked into a basic chemistry classroom has seen the periodic tablethat blocky catalog of the elements that everything is made of. But few have seen it as Theodore Gray hasas art. Gray, author of the "Gray Matter" column for Popular Science and the new book The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe, spent five years researching and photographing the table's 118 elements in their purest, uncombined form. Gray is a serious scientist with a silly side: He co-founded Wolfram Research, which makes the groundbreaking software Mathematica; won the tongue-in-cheek 2002 Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating the Periodic Table Table, a wooden table with compartments for each of the elements; and posted a bouncy musical trailer for his new book on YouTube (link below). Presented as part of Seattle Science Lectures, with Pacific Science Center and University Book Store. Sponsored by Microsoft.