FEBRUARY 2012 Dan's Diary Track Dan Shechtman's appointment calendar from the moment of the Nobel Prize announcement until he accepted the award... New Blood Technion and Rambam Health Care Campus researchers have created, grown, and multiplied large quantities of cells, called pericytes... High Powered Gift Technion’s Faculty of Electrical Engineering (EE) - ranked among the world’s Top 10 electrical engineering departments is host to... News Nobel Prize Research Academic Excellence News Flash The Thomas A. Edison Patent Award to Prof. Moshe Shoham 13/05/2013, Read more 2 New Film Clips Demonstrating Aumni Achievements 01/05/2013, Read more Sea Squirt Solves Crystal Conundrum 28/04/2013, Read more Guardians Irwin and Joan Jacobs make $133 m. foundational gift to Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute 23/04/2013, Read more Harvey Prize Laureates to Lecture at Technion 22/04/2013, Read more In Nature: 1st photonic topological insulators to provide protection for transport of light 11/04/2013, Read more Wednesdays at One: Frontiers in Medical Research Lecture Series, Amado 04/04/2013, Read more Technion Commemorates Jewish-Italian Matehematicians 09/04/2013, Read more View news archive Quasicrystals: History in the Making NIVIERE/SIPA Dan Shechtman discovered quasiperiodic crystals in 1982 - a new form of matter. His findings, recorded from an aluminum manganese alloy which he had rapidly cooled after melting, demonstrated a clear diffraction pattern with fivefold symmetry. Born in Tel Aviv in 1941, Nobel Laureate Dan Shechtman, who showed a precocious ability to view objects in a unique manner and a prodigious memory for detail, says, “Until the age of three, I lived on Dizengoff Street in a Bauhaus building. I remember looking out the porch fascinated at how people on the street below look from above.” “In high school I was a sharpshooter, one of the best in the country. We were educated to become physically and mentally independent - if you threw us on a Desert Island we would survive. That’s the Israeli character,” says the world-renowned scientist who stood up for his discovery in the face of widespread disbelief. Read more © 2012 Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Division of Public Affairs and Resource Development All rights reserved. If you wish to use any text or graphics contained herein, please contact focus@technion.ac.il