Nobel Prizes 2011 Chemistry: D. Shechtma
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Article
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2011
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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To the surprise of many, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Dan Shechtman (Technion Haifa, Israel) for the discovery of quasicrystals. In quasicrystals, atom positions are ordered, but show five-, eight-, ten-, or twelvefold rotational symmetry not found i