The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Honors Discoverer of Quasicrystals
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - 08:30
in Physics & Chemistry
The 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded today to Daniel Schechtman of the Technion--Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. Schechtman discovered what are called quasicrystals , a finding that fundamentally altered the understanding of solid matter.At an announcement event today in Stockholm, Sven Lidin of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences described the atoms and clusters within a quasicrystal: “It is perfectly ordered, it is infinite--and yet it never repeats itself.” [More]