Beyond the Crystal Maze

Abstract

Where, then, is that person who ignorantly sneers at the study of matter as a material and gross study?Where, again, is that man with gifts so God-like and mind so elevated that he can attack and solve its problem?" 1 -Henry Rowland Solid state physics did not exist when Henry Rowland, founding president of the American Physical Society, wrote the above lines in 1899. 2 Rowland instead referred to latenineteenth-century struggles to understand the structure and behavior of atoms and molecules.

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