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Tag Archives: quasicrystal
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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