Chemestry s Nobel Prize 2011

Dan Shechtman was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemestry in 2011 by having proposed the quasicrystals theory. This fact has changed the way of understanding the solid structure.

Next I introduce a picture of quasicrystals, a paragraph of the official Nobel Prize page and its link.

I hope you will enjoy it.

"In quasicrystals, we find the fascinating mosaics of the Arabic world reproduced at the level of atoms: regular patterns that never repeat themselves. However, the configuration found in quasicrystals was considered impossible, and Dan Shechtman had to fight a fierce battle against established science. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011 has fundamentally altered how chemists conceive of solid matter."




http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2011/press.html