The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2011 to Daniel ShechtmanTechnion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel “for the discovery of quasicrystals”.A remarkable mosaic of atomsIn quasicrystals, we find the fascinating mosaics of the Arabic worldreproduced at the level of atoms: regular patterns that never repeat themselves.However, the configuration found in quasicrystals was considered impossible,and Daniel Shechtman had to fight a fierce battle against established science.The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011 has
