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Are There Real Crystals in the Universe?

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Hagen Kleinert is a theoretical physicist and professor at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. He has honorary doctorates from the West University of Timisoara and the Russian Slavic University of Bishkek, and is also an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Creative Endeavors. For his studies on particle and solid state physics, he received the Max Born and Majorana Prizes. He studied with George Gamow, who is considered one of the pioneers of the Big Bang theory.

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Pesce, L. (2019). Are There Real Crystals in the Universe?. In: Close Encounters of Art and Physics . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22730-2_19

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