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The notion of natural quasicrystals is here to stay
In November 2008, Luca Bindi, a curator at the Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy, found that the alloy of aluminium and copper called khatyrkite could be a quasicrystal. Bindi couldn’t be sure because he didn’t have the transmission electron microscope necessary to verify his … Continue reading
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A case of Kuhn, quasicrystals & communication – Part II
Did science journalists find QCs anomalous? Did they report the crisis period as it happened or as an isolated incident? Whether they did or did not will be indicative of Kuhn’s influence on science journalism as well as a reflection … Continue reading
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Tagged crystallography, Dan Shechtman, Dov Levine, Istvan Hargittai, Malcolm Browne, Paul Steinhardt, Penrose tiling, quasicrystals, science journalism, Structure of Scientific Revolutions, three-dimensional geometry
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