Danny Shechtman – the host of our 4th Symmetry Congress in 1998 and an Honorary Member of our society – was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011. In the last fifteen years, this is only the fourth case that this prize was given to a single person – following Ahmed H. Zewail (1999), Roger D. Kornberg (2006), Gerhard Ertl (2007) – and not shared by two or three scholars. Danny made a revolutionary contribution to science by discovering the quasicrystals that have 5-fold and other such symmetries that were earlier considered as “forbidden” in crystallography.
See the text of the Presentation Speech by Professor Sven Lidin (10 December 2011):
<http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2011/presentation-speech.html>
See a Video of the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony (89 minutes):
<http://www.nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=1752>
Danny’s works in our Society’s publications:
Shechtman, D. (1994) Symmetry in periodic and quasi-periodic crystals, Symmetry: Culture and Science, The Quarterly of the International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry (ISIS-Symmetry), 6, 480 (published for the 3rd Symmetry Congress).
Shechtman, D, Nagy, D. at al., eds. (1998) Order/Disorder, Vols. 1-3, Haifa: Technion, 168 + 167 + 84 pp. (published for the 4th Symmetry Congress).
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