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Dr. Mabuse
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Posted - 06/01/2012 :  11:57:58  Show Profile  Send Dr. Mabuse an ICQ Message Send Dr. Mabuse a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Reported by The Local, Swedish news in English.

An 11-year-old Swedish boy has made scientific history for helping to discover the atomic structure of complex crystals, a problem which had vexed his professor father for most of his young son's life.


It started out with the boy's father seeing his son solving sudoku-puzzles and realizing that the boy was pretty smart. So he brought his boy to view his work with a fresh eye. Together they solved the structure of quasicrystal patterns from electron microscope images.

The paper detailing the findings of the father-son team was published in the prestigious journal* and listed Linus, who was only ten at the time of the discovery, as a co-author, making him among the youngest to ever be listed as the author of a paper in the Royal Society's 352-year history.
* the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. The article: A about the structure of approximates" a type of quasicrystals which was discovered relatively recently.
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Kil
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Posted - 06/01/2012 :  18:26:16   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Kil's Homepage  Send Kil an AOL message  Send Kil a Yahoo! Message Send Kil a Private Message  Reply with Quote
How cool is that? Wow!
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marfknox
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Posted - 06/01/2012 :  21:49:04   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit marfknox's Homepage  Send marfknox an AOL message Send marfknox a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Sometimes all it takes is fresh eyes. :-)
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HalfMooner
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Posted - 06/02/2012 :  06:34:26   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote
This . . .
And sure enough, Linus's sharp eye was able to discover the quasicrystal patterns on the electron microscope images.
. . . seems to be the key part contributed by Linus. Sharp eyes and pattern recognition.
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