Awards


- May 1993 ETH Medal Award for excellent Ph.D. thesis
- May 1992 - Sept. 1993 STA Fellowship, Science and Technology Agency Japan
- September 1999    Most Beautiful Quasicrystal Image (ICQ7)

Most Beautiful Quasicrystal Image

From the concluding remarks by Prof. K. Urban at the 7th Int. Conf. on Quasicrystals, Stuttgart, Germany:
«Quasicrystal physics and crystallography has from the beginning contained a fascinating element of beauty. Fivefold stars already appear as magic symbols in pottery manufactured in the second millennium BC in Mesopotamia. Fivefold, eightfold, tenfold, twelvefold symmetry, all forbidden in conventional crystallography but occurring in quasicrystals, is and remains attractive. It is therefore a pleasure to announce the winner of the award for the best and most beautiful quasicrystal-related picture as selected by the participants of the conference: Dr. C. Beeli, Solid State Physics Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland.»




Note that this figure has been published (in a slightly different form):
C. Beeli, T. Gödecke and R. Lück,
Highly faceted growth shape of microvoids in icosahedral Al-Mn-Pd,
Philosophical Magazine Letters, 78, 339-348 (1998)



The award I obtained was the beautiful tea pot shown below, sponsored (and made) by David Warrington. Its body has the shape of a rhombic dodecahedron (a Belinsky polyhedron) and serves four cups of tea without spilling any drop! The prize will of course be shared with T. Gödecke and R. Lück. Many thanks for this original and unique prize!





Would you like to have your own icosahedral teapot?
In that case please contact David Warrington: dhwarrington@yahoo.co.uk .
David can produce for you a special hand made teapot in the shape of almost any
polyhedron (maximum number of faces around 32).
I present here a further example from David's beautiful collection (below) as well
as my new cuboctahedral (right) teapot which I ordered from him!
Note: CVD-grown diamonds can form in this shape, bounded by (100) and (111) facets.

       


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