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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.
Excerpts from the citation awarding the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry to Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman for "for the discovery of quasicrystals."
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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.
"I told everyone who was ready to listen that I had material with pentagonal symmetry. People just laughed at me," Shechtman said in a description of his work released by his university.
"It feels wonderful," Shechtman, a 70-year-old distinguished professor at the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, told The Associated Press after receiving news of the prize.
