Quasi-Periodic Crystals—The Long Road from Discovery to Acceptance

[Extract] Three surprising discoveries on the nature of matter and its properties were published in the mid-1980s. All these discoveries led to Nobel prizes. The first discovery was in 1985, when fullerenes were discovered by Robert F. Curl Jr, Sir Harold W. Kroto, and Richard E. Smalley. Fullerenes...

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Main Author: Daniel Schechtman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Rambam Health Care Campus 2013-01-01
Series:Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal
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Online Access:http://rmmj.org.il/Pages/ArticleHTM.aspx?manuId=241