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QUASICRYSTAL DIFFRACTION
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In 1982, Dan Shechtman observed electron diffraction patterns with 10-fold symmetry in an Al-Mn alloy -- "impossible" by classical crystallography. This won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and proved quasicrystals exist.