Dan Shechtman's quasicrystal discovery in perspective

Israel Journal of Chemistry

Volumn 51, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 1144-1152

  Hargittai, Istvan ^a  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Dan Shechtman; generalized crystallography; Nobel Prize 2011; quasicrystals; scientific discovery; symmetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855468788     PISSN: 00212148     EISSN: 18695868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijch.201100137     Document Type: Review

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