The Discovery of Quasicrystals: The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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🗓️ 5 October 2011

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Listen to the announcement of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, to Daniel Shechtman of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. Then hear comments from the president of the American Chemical Society, Nancy Jackson, of Sandia National Laboratories Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.5	Steve Merski here with another special Nobel edition of the Scientific American podcast Science Talk posted on October 5th, 2011. Early this morning on the clock here in New York City,
0:52.1	the Royal Swedish Academy of Science has awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
0:56.2	What follows is an edit of the announcement and press conference.
0:59.8	The first voice you hear is the Academy's Stefan Normark.
1:05.4	This year's prize awards a remarkable mosaic of atoms.
1:10.5	The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
1:12.5	has decided to award the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1:17.2	to Professor Daniel Schechtmann at Technion,
1:22.6	Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
1:27.0	And the Academy's citation runs for the discovery of
1:31.3	quasi-crystals. Professor Losh Tillander will now give us a short summary in English, please.
1:39.8	I will give a brief introduction to the price and then hand over to Professor Liddine for a more detailed description.
1:47.0	This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry awards one scientist, Daniel Schechtmann.
1:53.0	His discovery of quasi-crystals revealed a new principle for packing of atoms and molecules in solid material. This led to a paradigm shift within chemistry.
2:04.6	It also stimulated to intense studies of the properties
2:08.6	caused by the very special atomic packing.
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