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Tag Archives: Nobel Prize
If the Nobel Committee in Oslo Only Had Courage…
…it would award this year’s Peace Nobel Prize to USAID. The award must go to the person or organization that has done the most “for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation … Continue reading
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Persian Artisans
This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Dan Shechtman from Israel for his discovery of quasicrystals in Nature in 1982. Persian artisans have created aperiodic quasicrystal tesselations on buildings more than 500 years earlier, before Johannes Kepler, Albrecht Dürer and, of … Continue reading
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Tagged aperiodic tiling, Chemistry, Dan Shechtman, Darb-i Imam, Islamic art, Nobel Prize, Peter J. Lu, Peter Steinhardt, quasicrystal
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