January 6th, 2012 | 
Author: The Israeli embassy has been celebrating the achievements of the hugely talented Israeli professor Daniel Shechtman.
Recently, he was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry. He was bestowed the honour for his recognition of quasicrystals in 1982.
Until he revealed the existence of such things, it was thought that atomic patterns in crystals repeat themselves.
Upon getting the prize, he received praise from the Israeli government. Speaking to the scientist after his award, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: “Every Israeli is happy today and every Jew in the world is proud.”
Meanwhile, Education Minister and Council of Higher Education Chairman Gideon Saar also praised the expert, noting that his achievements are a considerable source of pride to the higher education system in the country.
As well as his role at the Israel Institute of Technology, Professor Shechtman is an associate of the US Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and a professor of materials science at Iowa State University.
The Nobel offering is not the first acclaim the scientist has received. He also won the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1999 and the Israel Prize for physics the year before.
In addition, between 1986 and 1993, he took the Physics Award of the Friedenberg Fund for the Advancement of Science and Education, the New England Academic Award of the Technion, the Rothschild Prize in Engineering and the Weizmann Science Award, among other things.
For more information on Dan Schechtman’s Nobel Prize as well as other cutting edge developments you can visit the Embassy of Israel in London’s website.
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