This year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry went to a single recipient, Daniel Shechtman of Technion in Haifa, Israel (see Figure 1). This is the 10th Nobel Prize awarded to a citizen of this small country. Indeed, just two years ago the Prize for Chemistry was shared by the first Israeli woman, Ada Yonath. Perhaps it is a good thing that the Prize for the discovery of quasicrystals was in Chemistry and not in Physics, since quasicrystals have up to now been much less widely known among chemists than among physicists.
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