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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 387 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, charts, facsimiles ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In an intriguing blend of science and international adventure ... a Princeton professor of physics and astrophysics takes readers on a wild ride in search of a new kind of matter. The author's hunt for a rare crystal structure, once thought impossible, begins in the early 1980s, when he proposed the existence of "quasicrystals" with a unique property called "five-fold symmetry." Months of making paper models and Styrofoam-and-pipe cleaner "arts-and-craft"...
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