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A Measure of Stability, begins this modern history of materials in 1920 with the announcement of the award of the Nobel Prize in Physics to metallurgist Charles-Edouard Guillaume for his discovery of the anomalous properties of the metal alloy Invar, a material that defined stability and whose importance has continued to increase over time.
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Norton, M.G. (2023). A Measure of Stability. In: A Modern History of Materials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23990-8_1
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