Nobel Prize 2011

Prof. Dan Shechtman receives the Nobel Prize from the King of Sweden Carl Gustav XVI. Screenshot from Channel 16 broadcasts

Prof. Dan Schechtman thanked everyone who helped him at the beginning of the way to establish the science of Caustic crystals

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Prof. Dan Shechtman receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry from the King of Sweden, December 10, 2011. Screenshot: from a Channel 1 broadcast

Prof. Sven Lydin from the Swedish Academy of Sciences: Prof. Shechtman's case demonstrates that the dwarf standing on the giant's shoulders sees and the giant is blind

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From left to right: Professor Shechtman, Ambassador Benny Dagan, Irit Dagan and Tzipi Shechtman in the lobby of the Grand Hotel. Photo: Technion spokespeople

Tonight at 17:00 the ceremony of awarding the Nobel Prize to Prof. Danny Shechtman

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Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and economics for 2011 at a press conference in Stockholm. Photo: Technion spokespeople

Professor Dan Shechtman at a press conference in Stockholm: I didn't break because I believe in my science

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Lars Heikenstein at the press conference at the Nobel Foundation. Photo: Technion spokespeople

The CEO of the Nobel Foundation on Professor Shechtman's win: "The cases where a person wins the prize alone, without partners, are rare, and they will be rarer in the future"

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quasi-crystals. From Wikipedia

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

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Professor Shechtman thanks his well-wishers. To his left - Professor Peretz Lavi, president of the Technion. Photo: Shlomo Shem, spokeswoman for the Technion.

The Technion celebrated a Nobel Prize with Professor Danny Shechtman

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Prof. Dan Shechtman at the "Pedagogy in the Age of Education" conference of the Initiative for Applied Research in Education 2610117

Prof. Dan Shechtman: "There are big holes in education and the Israeli government must correct the injustice in which half of the students do not study core studies"

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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

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Prof. Dan Shechtman and the editor of the science website Avi Blizovsky, 5/10/2011

Prof. Shechtman in an interview with the Hadaan website: "Ilan Blach, John Kahn and Dennis Gratis deserved to share the Nobel with me"

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Nobel laureate Prof. Danny Shechtman and Technion President Prof. Peretz Lavi at the press conference on the occasion of the award, 5.10.11 Photo by Avi Blizovsky

"I feel like I'm at the forefront of science that thousands of people are engaged in"

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