TY - GEN T1 - Indiana Steinhardt and the Quest for Quasicrystals : A Conversation with Paul Steinhardt. T2 - Ideas Roadshow Conversations Ser. A1 - Burton, Howard LA - English PP - Toronto PB - Open Agenda Publishing YR - 2020 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1250074692 AB - This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Paul Steinhardt, the Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Director of the Center for Theoretical Science at Princeton University. This wide-ranging conversation provides a comprehensive account of a marvellous scientific adventure story in the quest for a natural quasicrystal. You will be taken on a fascinating ride through the physics of materials, from theory, to the laboratory, to the discovery of a new state of matter, that culminated in Paul Steinhardt's dramatic Siberian expedition. Paul Steinhardt talks. OP - 64 NO - Description based upon print version of record. CN - QC173.4.Q36 SN - 9781771700887 SN - 1771700882 SN - 1771702877 SN - 9781771702874 KW - Steinhardt, Paul J. : Interviews. KW - Quasicrystals. KW - Quasicristaux. KW - MATHEMATICS. KW - Chemistry. KW - SCIENCE. KW - Geophysics. KW - Physics. KW - Condensed Matter. KW - Quasicrystals KW - Interviews ER -