Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded for discovery of quasicrystals
Israeli scientist Daniel Schechtman was awarded 20 million Swedish kronor, equivalent to R$ 5,4 million.
247 with international agencies – Israeli scientist Daniel Schechtman received the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of quasicrystals. He receives the prize of 20 million Swedish kronor, equivalent to R$ 5,4 million. The announcement was made this Tuesday at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.
According to the Nobel committee, many scientists have studied quasicrystals, but the discovery is due exclusively to Schechtman, "who needed great skill and tenacity to convince a very skeptical scientific community." The Israeli scientist received harsh criticism and boos when he showed that quasicrystals did not obey crystal theories because they had "rotational symmetry."
The Nobel Prize in Literature will be awarded this Thursday, the Peace Prize on Friday, and the Economics Prize on Monday.