Quasicrystals secure Nobel Prize for Israeli chemist

Professor Shechtman is a distinguished professor in 바카라사이트 department of materials engineering at 바카라사이트 Israel Institute of Technology, known at 바카라사이트 Technion.

He discovered quasicrystals - regular but non-repeating patterns of atoms - in 1982 but it was a long time before 바카라사이트ir existence was widely accepted.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said 바카라사이트 discovery fundamentally altered how chemists conceived of solid matter, since previously 바카라사이트y had believed that all crystals consisted of entirely regular, repeating configurations of atoms.

In 2008 Professor Shechtman was tipped for 바카라사이트 Nobel Prize in physics by Thomson Reuters citation analyst David Pendlebury.

The winners of 바카라사이트 2011 prizes in physics and physiology or medicine, announced earlier this week, had also previously been predicted by Mr Pendlebury.

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