Daniel Shechtman wins Nobel chemistry prize

Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - 06:00 in Astronomy & Space

Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman won the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for his discovery of quasicrystals, a mosaic-like chemical structure that researchers previously thought was impossible.

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