“My childhood dream was to study mechanical engineering. After reading 'The Mysterious Island' - which I read 25 times as a boy - I thought that was the best thing a person could do. The engi...”
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“My childhood dream was to study mechanical engineering. After reading 'The Mysterious Island' - which I read 25 times as a boy - I thought that was the best thing a person could do. The engi...”
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“On April 8, 1982, I was alone in the electron microscope room when I discovered the Icosahedral Phase that opened the field of quasi-periodic crystals.”
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“Crystallographers believed in X-ray results, which are of course very accurate. But the x-rays are limited, and electron microscopy filled the gap, and so the discovery of quasicrystals coul...”
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“The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.”
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“The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.”
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“I told everyone who was ready to listen that I had material with pentagonal symmetry. People just laughed at me.”
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