The Quasicrystals Discovery as a Resonance of the Non-Euclidean Geometry Revolution: Historical and Philosophical Perspective.
In this paper, we review the history of quasicrystals from their sensational discovery in 1982, initially 'forbidden' by the rules of classical crystallography, to 2011 when Dan Shechtman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. We then discuss the discovery of quasicrystals in philosophical terms...
| Publicado en: | Philosophia Vol. 42; no. 1; pp. 25 - 41 |
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