Born July 12, 1895 – Died July 1, 1983
An American visionary, designer, architect, and inventor.
Throughout his life, Fuller was concerned with the question of whether humanity has a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how. Considering himself an average individual without special monetary means or academic degree, he chose to devote his life to this question, trying to find out what an individual like him could do to improve humanity's condition that large organizations, governments, or private enterprises inherently could not do.
Pursuing this lifelong experiment, Fuller wrote twenty-eight books, coining and popularizing terms such as "spaceship earth", ephemeralization, and synergetics. (more at Wikipedia)
In chemistry, fullerines describe 100% carbon molecules: they show synergetic structures.
See also: http://www.bfi.org/ (the Buckminster Fuller Institute)