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Chemistry Nobel Prize goes to Dan Shechtman

14 October 2011

The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Dan Shechtman "for the discovery of quasicrystals."

By Kari Williamson

Shechtman is a professor of materials science at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel, a professor at Iowa State University, and a researcher at the US Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory.

Dan Chechtman has previously contributed to .

 

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