Which year did Dan Shechtman discover Quasiperiodic Crystals?
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Dan Shechtman discovered Quasiperiodic Crystals in 1982. Shechtman was a scientist working at the Naval Research Laboratory in Maryland. He was studying metallic alloys when he discovered a crystal that did not fit the standard model of crystals. This crystal had a five-fold symmetry, which is not possible in a regular crystal.
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