Israeli chemist won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Israeli chemist Daniel Shechtman was named in the publication of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry today for his discovery of semi-crystalline.

Chemist Daniel Schechtman won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year. (Photo: iastate)

AFP said his research on semi-crystalline Daniel Shechtman is considered to have fundamentally changed the way chemists perceive solids.

Schechtman has shown that selling crystals is orderly and symmetric models but never repeat themselves. Crystal semi-discovered in the laboratory and also found in natural minerals. Their rigid structure is capable of hardening materials and can be applied to the production of consumer products such as frying pans and machines such as high-temperature diesel engines.

This discovery by Daniel Schetman earlier caused controversy to the extent that he was asked to leave his research group. However, he fought to the end and forced other scientists to reconsider the nature of the problem.

Mr. Shechtman, born in 1941, is a professor at the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. He will receive a cash prize of $ 1.48 million at the official awards ceremony held in Stockholm, Sweden on December 10, to commemorate the death of the founder of the Alfred Nobel Prize.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is the third prize to be awarded in this year's Nobel season, following the Medical and Physical Prize.