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In the 1960s the first examples were found of crystals which were not lattice periodic but quasiperiodic (a more general notion), contradicting the prevailing idea that crystals should be lattice periodic. The most interesting class of these aperiodic crystals was that of quasicrystals, discovered in 1982 by Dan Shechtman. A brief history of the development of the field of aperiodic crystals is given.
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