The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Dan Shechtman, for his discovery of quasicrystals.

In April 1982, Dr. Shechtman prepared aluminium/manganese alloys by rapidly cooling molten mixtures of the two metals. He observed that ....

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