The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011 was awarded to Dan Shechtman “for the discovery of quasicrystals”.

Dan Shechtman

Dan Shechtman
Born: 1941, Tel Aviv, Israel
Affiliation at the time of the award: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Prize motivation: “for the discovery of quasicrystals”.

For more info about Dan Shechtman: http://materials.technion.ac.il/st/

Source: http://www.nobelprize.org

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