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La Reale Accademia Svedese delle Scienze ha deciso di conferire il Premio Nobel 2001 in Chimica a Daniel Shechtmann (Tel Aviv, 1941, Ph.D. 1972 della Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. Professor emerito, The Philip Tobias Chair, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel) per la scoperta dei quasicristalli.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2011/press.pdf