Dan Shechtman

A tesseract (a four-dimensional cube) and the "shadow" it casts on a plane - the quasi-crystal discovered by Shechtman. According to Prof. Bartel, "The fact that a quasi-crystal is a "shadow" of a high-dimensional periodic crystal is not new in itself. We discovered that the casting is not only of but also of topological properties such as holes, distortions or vortices." Illustration: Florian Sterl, Sterltech Optics

Greetings from the Fourth Dimension: Technion Researchers Unveil New Breakthrough in the Field of Quasi-Crystals

New research reveals that the fourth dimension dictates not only the structure but also the topological properties of quasicrystals, offering a deeper understanding of a phenomenon that won Prof. Dan Shechtman the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Harvard University. Photo: © Jiawangkun | Dreamstime.com

Seven Nobel laureates have appealed to the heads of Harvard, MIT and Pennsylvania over the hesitancy in dealing with anti-Semitism

The Seven expressed their concern over the hesitant responses of the institutions' leadership to condemn the calls for genocide
Sandy Sherman and CEO of the Wolf Foundation Reot Yanon-Berman. Photo: The Wolf Foundation

The Great World Journey for the Wolf Foundation Awards

After two years in a row in which it was not possible to hold the Wolf Prize awarding ceremony in the Knesset, the foundation's senior officials, led by the Chairman Prof. Dan Shechtman and the Executive Director Reut Yeinon-Berman, traveled around the world and held ceremonies in the universities of
Prof. Dan Shechtman. Photography: Itai Nebo

Professors Dan Shechtman and David Harel were elected to the American Academy

Albert Einstein, Chaim Weizmann later the first president (from left) Menachem Oshiskin at a meeting in 1921. From Wikipedia

All the President's scientists

Quasi-crystal from the Koryak Mountains in Russia. Photo: Paul Steinhart, Princeton University

Impossible quasi-crystals came from space

quasi-crystals. From Wikipedia

From Quasi-Crystals to the Nobel Prize / Louisa Meshi and Adin Stern

Figure 3. Different types of symmetry in crystals. The pattern of the 5th order symmetry crystal will never repeat itself.

On minerals, knits and gems

Figure 1. Daniel Shechtman's interference pattern had an axis of symmetry of order 10: rotating the image by a tenth of a complete circle (36 degrees) led to obtaining the same pattern.

Crystals with golden ratios - the full text

quasi-crystals. From Wikipedia

On quasi-crystals and the golden ratio

Prof. Moti Segev in the laboratory. Photo: Nitzan Zohar, Technion Spokesperson

"We managed to break the mental fixation"

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Icon conference: between science and science fiction