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Kamchatka or bust: Paul Steinhardt’s quest for quasicrystals from outer space

02 Dec 2019 Hamish Johnston
Taken from the December 2019 issue of Physics World where it appeared under the headline "Kamchatka or bust: an unlikely quest".

Hamish Johnston reviews The Second Kind of Impossible: the Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter by Paul Steinhardt

Mineral adventure Luca Bindi, Valery Kryachko and Paul Steinhardt (left to right) during their 2011

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