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2011 Nobel Chemistry Prize - Daniel Shechtman
Meeting at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)* in 1985 just months after shaking the foundations of materials science with publication of his discovery of quasicrystals, Dan Shechtman, winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, discusses the material's surprising atomic structure with collaborators. From left to right are Shechtman; Frank Biancaniello, NIST; Denis Gratias, National Science Research Center, France; John Cahn, NIST; Leonid Bendersky, Johns Hopkins University (now at NIST); and Robert Schaefer, NIST. *NIST was known as the National Bureau of Standards at the time.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2011 to Dan Shechtman -
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel "for the discovery of quasicrystals."
NIST Colleagues Congratulate Shechtman on Nobel Chemistry Prize