jan 1, 2011 - Israeli Scientist, Dan Shechtman wins the Nobel Prize for Quasictrystals
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While studying a rapidly cooled molten mixture of aluminum and manganese, the crystal structure exhibited a five fold pentagonal symmetry with "glue atoms" to fill the gaps because they cannot orderly repeat.https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/quasicrystals-win-chemistry-nobel
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