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Article: For benefits of matter-structure research, check at home
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 13, 1994
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For a hint of the breadth of discoveries that flowed from the work
that earned the Nobel Prize in physics yesterday, just look at your
refrigerator door.
The lightweight magnets that helped turn refrigerators into
bulletin boards in millions of households were but one of many
indirect offshoots of the prize-winning research.
The award recognized the impact of the technique known as neutron
scattering, one of the most useful methods scientists have for
looking deep within a solid piece of matter to see how its atoms are
arranged.
Many of the most important advances in materials science in the
last few decades -- high-temperature superconductors, plastic
polymers, new magnetic materials and ...