Nobel Prizes 2011

Prof. Dan Shechtman receives an honorary statuette from Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin. Next to them is MK Ronit Tirosh. PR photo, Israel Sun

Knesset Speaker Robbie Rivlin, "If we want more Shechtmans, we need to invest in creating an appropriate educational and scientific atmosphere"

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The cover of the book drive and curiosity by Ishtavan Hargitai, Prometheus Publishing

Exclusive to the Hidan website: the chapter dealing with Prof. Dan Shechtman - impossible material, from Ishtavan Hargitay's book Drive And Curiosity

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Prof. Ishtavan Hargitai. Photo courtesy of the author

How and why did the winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Dan Shechtman, persist even though he was rejected?

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Milestones in the expansion of the universe. From Wikipedia

The cold end of the universe

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Prof. Dan Shechtman. Photo: Technion

Danny Shechtman - the tragedy of the scientists, and the triumph of science

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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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quasi-crystals. From Wikipedia

On quasi-crystals and the golden ratio

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Prof. Danny Shechtman. Photo: Technion

Prof. Danny Shechtman of the Technion won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of quasi-crystals

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expansion of the universe. From Wikipedia

"The discovery of the Nobel laureates is the most important discovery in cosmology in the last decades"

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Prof. Sol Perlmutter from Berkeley, one of the winners of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics

"The phenomenon of the acceleration of the expansion of the universe is a phenomenon that is observed and everyone is now convinced that it is real but no one understands it"

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The 10 most distant supernovae from Type Ia that were discovered in a study in which the Israeli researchers Or Graor, Prof. Dan Maoz, Dr. Dobi Poznansky from Tel Aviv University and Avishi Gal-Yam from the Weizmann Institute are also partners, 2011

Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the acceleration of the expansion of the universe

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Prof. Ralph Steinman, discovers immune cells. Winner of the 2011 Hovel Medicine Award. From the NIH

An embarrassing glitch for the members of the Nobel Prize committee - one of the winners died a few days before the announcement of the win and they were not informed of this

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Prof. Eitan Yaffe Nof - The Hebrew University

"For many, many years there was no Nobel Prize for the field of immunology, certainly not in this field of the innate immune response

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Prof. Ralph Steinman, discovers immune cells. Winner of the 2011 Hovel Medicine Award. From the NIH

Nobel Prize for Medicine for 2011 to three researchers who made discoveries in the immune system

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