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5 youngsters. So as the designer, you have to imagine
_ how to illustrate to the public how a hydrogen
_ A ‘ bubble chamber works, or how to tell the story of
an ~ ‘. ' E 1’ ‘ DNA. I found myself learning science by talking
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-u ‘ . with the top scientists in the world, then trying
. _ _ ._ ‘ to figure out how a six-year-old would take it in.
,_» ‘A - {J _' _<' _, Treating both of these groups of people as the
I — .'. .' .' ‘V - \ exhibit’s ‘customers’ was the challenge, but that’s how
' "' ' « . ' ' . . . . . .
I _ ‘ ~ V . ' ‘ it is with any kind of museum exhibit. You must pay
I _ » . I’ 1 homage to the cutting-edge nature of the science
, , ‘ while also being reductive and demonstrative to
5. , ' ' connect with everyday museum-goers. Nobel Prize
‘ _ _ I scientists can write scientific papers all day long, but
‘ ' ‘ I explaining their discoveries in layman’s terms is a big
deal for them.”
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r...___ 1 e experience pro uce one o urrays signature
...,,, 5 ' _k___ memories. Chicago physician Charles B. Huggins
| __— received a 1966 Nobel Prize for his breakthrough
' I genetic research to understand how hormones could
“ ‘ ' be used to control the growth of some cancers.
- "=1 .\ 7 l ‘ Murray’s team wanted to show a Nobel Prize medal
_V "7 “P ' '_‘ \ \ I _ for the exhibit and decided to create a walk-around
' F " 1‘ . - . hologram, a new invention at the time, to convey the
7 / ' J ' feel and scale of it.
A —-]""TP’« 1 _ ° “I helped Huggins with some exhibits for an
- I I ' I, .--'. u comin conference so I asked him ‘Do ou know
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i . '* — 9. howl could get my hands on a Nobel Prize medal?’
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_ i~,WM__ ) _ and he says, I llloan you mine. So he goes over to
a big filing cabinet in his office, pulls open a drawer
- \ ' I ' with all these boxes of awards, rifles through it,
1* 1 spies the box he wants — ‘Oh, there it is’— blows
I the dust off of it, and hands me his gold medal. He
.—' ‘ was totally unimpressed with what he was doing.
«- “' Meanwhile, here I am, 28 years old, and I’m walking
~— ' “' 4 out of his office with his solid gold Nobel Prize
’‘ '" ‘ 1 ‘ medal for cancer research!” >
V I ‘ | VI .
’ . s ' ID Program Coordinator Peter Chamberlain and M.Des
T ' ~ V Graduate Braden Trauth with Murray In front of the
I I ‘ v-j ' 1, DAAP building, top photo. Middle, Murray explains a
,2» — ' : concept to clean up oil spills by senior studentluliana
/4" I" - E Probst, which won the Director's award for excellence.
,/ - , Bottom, Murray admires a concept car model by senior
' student Cameron Bresn.
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