2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: 'Quasicrystals' once thought impossible have changed understanding of solid matter
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - 08:30
in Physics & Chemistry
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is awarding the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2011 to Daniel Shechtman for the discovery of quasicrystals: non-repeating regular patterns of atoms that were once thought to be impossible. The breakthrough has fundamentally altered how chemists conceive of solid matter.
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