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 Paralysed Woman in ReWalk Suit to Complete London Marathon 01/05/2012, Read more Double Pioneer Moussa Youdim Internationally Recognized 08/05/2012, Read more Prof. David Hasson Receives Landau Award from Mifal HaPayis 29/04/2012, Read more Celebrating Water: The Source of Life 25/04/2012, Read more We Witness: Holocaust Remembrance Day 17/04/2012, Read more Asher Space Research Institute: new video clip 14/03/2012, Read more Robotic Skeleton Set to Propel Paralysed Woman through London Marathon 19/02/2012, Read more New York City Council Delegation to Technion 15/02/2012, 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