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Ruth Graham of The Boston Globe writes about Professor Franz-Josef Ulm’s work with “urban physics.” Ulm’s research, “places him among a number of scientists now using the tools of physics to analyze the practically infinite amount of data that cities produce in the 21st century, from population density to the number of patents produced to energy bill charges.”

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In spotting this aerial photo of a city, Franz-Josef Ulm (pictured) made a connection between the patterns of houses and streets and the underlying molecular structure of cement.

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Franz-Josef Ulm's serendipitous observation leads to research linking physics and urban planning.