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A publication in Physical Review Letters by Shechtman et al. in 1984 announcing the discovery of a new and unusual quasiperiodic atomic order in solids led to excitement in the scientific community, especially among mathematicians, physicists, crystallographers and materials scientists. It resulted in a race to describe the structure of quasicrystals, development of higher dimensional crystallography, prediction of its properties and potential applications.
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