Israeli Scientist Wins Nobel Chemistry Prize for 'Quasicrystals'

STOCKHOLM – Israeli scientist Dan Shechtman was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for a discovery that faced skepticism and mockery, even prompting his expulsion from his U.S. research team, before it won widespread acceptance as a fundamental breakthrough.While doing research in the U.S. in 1982, Shechtman discovered a new chemical structure -- quasicrystals -- that researchers previously thought was impossible.He was studying a mix of aluminum and manganese in an electron

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