Indiana Steinhardt and the Quest for Quasicrystals A Conversation with Paul Steinhardt 1st Edition by Howard Burton

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• Author: Howard Burton

This book is based on an in-depth conversation with Paul Steinhardt, the Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Director of the Center for Theoretical Science at Princeton University. This conversation provides a comprehensive account of a marvellous scientific adventure story in the quest for a natural quasicrystal. You will be taken on a fascinating ride through the physics of materials, from theory, to the laboratory, to the discovery of a new state of matter, that culminated in Steinhardt’s dramatic Siberian expedition. Paul Steinhardt talks about his encounters with mineral smugglers, secret diaries and quasi-mythical characters during his “Indiana Jones” expedition from Florence to Israel, Amsterdam to California, Princeton to Kamchatka which led him to find quasicrystals that are quite literally out of this world…

Table contents:

I. Introducing Quasicrystals – Innovative symmetries through visual disharmonies
II. Building Models – Forcing forbidden symmetries
III. Out of the Blue – The real world intervenes
IV. Competing Explanations – A three-horse race
V. Looking to Nature – Developing a separation algorithm
VI. New Year’s Delight – Persistence pays off
VII. Confronting the Impossible – Encountering rock-hard scepticism
VIII. Tracking Khatyrkite – Smoke, mirrors, and the holotype sample
IX. Kamchatka – Closure, and perhaps another beginning
X. Passing It On – How to keep the flame of science burning brightly

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