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Three views of the icosahedral symmetry of quasicrystalline aluminum-manganese. (Top) View is along the fivefold symmetry axis; (centre) rotating by 37.38° reveals the threefold axis, and (bottom) rotating by 58.29° reveals the twofold axis.

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$electron diffraction$

Three views of the icosahedral symmetry of quasicrystalline aluminum-manganese. (Top) View is along the fivefold symmetry axis; (centre) rotating by 37.38° reveals the threefold axis, and (bottom) rotating by 58.29° reveals the twofold axis.

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low-energy electron diffraction electron diffraction diffraction grating aureole Brocken spectre electron scattering electronic configuration electron paramagnetic resonance positron electron charge electron spectroscopy

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Sir George Paget Thomson

Sir George Paget Thomson

English physicist

Davisson, 1946

Clinton Joseph Davisson

American physicist

Lester Halbert Germer

American physicist

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Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.

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