Tag Archives: Discovery
Materials Quotes: 009
David Turnbull (1979 Von Hippel award acceptance speech): [...] There are those who tell us from time to time that all the important problems in a field have, in principle, been solved and the field is therefore dead. So we … Continue reading
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Finding and the recognition of finding
The following words were written by Prof. Eiji Osawa in a 1993 paper in which he looked back at the history of the discovery of buckminsterfullerene — C60. While the 1985 discovery was credited to Kroto et al, there were … Continue reading
