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The search continues for Kármán's St Christopher

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It is nice to see fourteenth-century Bolognese frescoes getting a bit of well-deserved publicity in the Science in Culture article “St Christopher and the vortex”1. However, if Theodore von Kármán was inspired by the beautiful San Domenico fresco of St Christopher to conceive of his ‘vortex street’, his powers as a psychic would be at least as remarkable as his achievements in the physical sciences.

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Gibbs, R. The search continues for Kármán's St Christopher. Nature 406, 122 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/35018274

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  1. Víctor Quezada

    Yes, I im searching the internet too for the von Kármán's inspiration.

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