title: Quasi-periodic crystals-the long road from discovery to acceptance.
authors.affiliation: Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry, 2011. Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Shechtman
keywords: Quasi-periodic crystals; crystallography; paradigm shift; periodicity