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Dan Shechtman is the
Philip Tobias Professor of
Materials Science at the
Israel Institute of Technology.
In 1982, he discovered the
Icosahedral Phase which opened
the new field of
quasiperiodic crystals.
Resources
- D. P. DiVincenzo and P. J.
Steinhardt, eds. 1991.
Quasicrystals: The State of the
Art. Directions in Condensed
Matter Physics, Vol 11.
ISBN 9810205228.
