page_title: Willy Gordon
section_title: Science
hierarchical_section_title: Willy Gordon / Art / Science
caption_attribution_description: Willy Gordon´s Protoorganism (1966), Bredäng, Stockholm
context_page_description: Willy Gordon was a Swedish sculptor and artist. Gordon was born at Ringen in the Russian gubernia of Courland and later emigrated with his family to Malmö, Sweden when he was seven years old. He studied sculpture by Nils Sjögren, at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm and later with Ossip Zadkine in Paris.
context_section_description: Willy Gordon also created sculptures of a scientific motif such as crystals and molecules.  For example, he created the sculpture of a protein molecule: Carrier molecule, that depicts a protein chain.
caption: Sculpture of a protein molecule. Photo: Bengt Oberger
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