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This is the official video of the Nov. 24th Technion evening in honor of Prof. Dan Shechtman! (In Hebrew.)
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On December 10th 2011, during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony, students from the Technion gathered in the Heller Cinema and gave a standing ovation to Distinguished Prof. Dan Shechtman when he received his Nobel Prize for his work in quasicrystals!
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- TECHNION LIVE NEWSLETTER, DECEMBER 2011 - Link!
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Touching congratulatory messages for Nobel Prize Laureate Prof. Dan Schechtman
Prof. Dan Schechtman, Nobel Laureate of Chemistry for his work concerning his 1982 discovery of quasicrystals has been offered congratulatory messages from all over the world, including Israel, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Iran, the Philippines, Poland, India, Canada and many other countries. Kobi Kurtz, Chairman of the Technion Society of the Netherlands also commented by saying “Congratulations for this great honor for yourself, Technion, and Israel, from the Technion Society of the Netherlands”.
To view the relevant page for Prof. Dan Schechtman click here.
Below are but a few comments:
Heartiest Congratulations!!!
From Sameen Ahmed KHAN, Salalah College of Technology, Salalah, Sultanate of OMAN
Dear Daniel Congratulations for your great success. Yours sincerely
Zahed Mohammadi Associate Professor and Head Dept. of EndodonticS, Hamadan University of medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran
Heartiest congratulations on this wonderful and well-deserved recognition of your excellent work
Ahmed Elzatahry
My congratulations, Prof. Shechtman, for your contribution to science and mankind! Greetings from San Juan City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
Arthur Iglesias
Congrats. You inspire us to work harder.
Mudassier Ahmad
Long live the solid-state researches!!! Congratulations!
Magda, Lodz, Poland
What a wonderful surprise, Danny. Can Tee shirts be far behind...make mine XXL please.
Mort. Prankman Yokneam
Congratulations! The fruit of your labor is sweet, and I must say you deserve it. You’re a star in our eyes!
varun, research student, IIsc. INDIA
Congratulations Daniel on your phenomenal achievement in our field. Hard work does pay off. You are an inspiration to a younger generation.
Niall Crawley, U of T, Canada
Congratulations to Daniel Shechtman and thanks to the nobel committee for keeping the tradition of awarding the prize to non-speculative science which not only pushes the frontier of the human knowledge, it also helps people to have a better life."
jayanti prasad, India
A wonderful discovery, a wonderful decision! Congratulations! What a perfect match to the Year of Chemistry.
Roland, Germany
Wow, another Israeli university has been honoured. Congrats Professor"
Naresh Niranjan Dhanasekar
Mazal tov. It takes courage to stand by a result that breaks a paradigm. You join the pantheon of Israeli Nobelists and we are all proud
Aharon Eviatar Tel Aviv University
Third Nobel Prize for the Technion!
Prof. Dan Shechtman, Technion Scientist, Wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
October 5, 2011 – Distinguished Professor Dan Shechtman of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Of the four Israeli scientists to have ever won the Nobel Prize, three are Technion professors.
Prof. Shechtman, of the Technion's Department of Materials Engineering, won the award for his 1982 discovery of Quasicrystals, an entirely new form of matter with a structure that scientists previously thought was impossible.
Israel's President Shimon Peres called Prof. Shechtman to congratulate him: "I salute you, you gave the people of Israel a wonderful gift. This is a great day for Haifa, a great day for the Technion."
“That an Israeli has once again been awarded a Nobel Prize is a mark of distinction for Israeli science in general and for the Technion,” said Technion President Peretz Lavie. “And the fact that this is the third Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Technion researchers in eight years is a clear indicator of the world-class research being done here.”
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Shechtman's discovery fundamentally changed the way chemists look at solid matter. It initially faced strong objections from the scientific community.
Since then, Quasicrystals have been produced in laboratories and a Swedish company found them in one of the most durable kinds of steel, which is now used in products such as razor blades and thin needles made specifically for eye surgery, the Nobel citation said.
Scientists are also experimenting with using Quasicrystals in coatings for frying pans, heat insulation in engines, and in light emitting diodes (LEDs).
On April 8, 1982, when Shechtman first observed crystals with a 10-point pentagonal symmetry in the NBS laboratory in Maryland, crystallography had long been considered a "closed field" promising no revolutionary breakthroughs. Shechtman's groundbreaking quasiperiodic structure was first described in Physical Review Letters in 1984, marking the birth of a new scientific field of Quasiperiodic crystals.
The scientific community, led by two-time Nobel laureate Linus Pauling, rejected Shechtman's findings, but in 1987, the pattern which had previously been considered contrary to the laws of nature was observed with the help of the electron microscope.
More than 40 scientific books have been dedicated to Quasiperiodic crystals, and hundreds of materials are known to exist with the structure discovered by Shechtman. In the wake of his discovery and its proof, the International Society of Crystallographers changed its basic definition of a crystal.
Prof. Shechtman’s Nobel Prize follows many other prestigious awards including the Aminoff Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2000), Wolf Foundation Prize in Physics (1999), Israel Prize in Physics (1998), Weizmann Prize in Science (1993), Rothschild Prize in Engineering (1990) and the International Award for New Materials of the American Physical Society (1987). He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. |
