Williamsburg Yorktown Daily: Two William & Mary professors describe the science of snowflakes

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What gives a snowflake its symmetry? And is it really true that no two snowflakes are alike? William & Mary News pondered these questions with the recent blustery weather and asked two professors for the details.

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What gives a snowflake its symmetry? And is it really true that no two snowflakes are alike? William & Mary News pondered these questions with the recent blustery weather and asked two professors for the details. Junping Shi is a professor and interim chair of the William & Mary Math Department. He applies his expertise in partial differential equations to model biological processes. Robert “Bob” Pike is a professor of chemistry at William & Mary and specializes in inorganic chemistry and crystallography.

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