Nobel Laureate's Handcrafted Jewelry on Display at MadaTech
Date: 14/10/2012 |
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After its phenomenal success in June at Technion, curator and Technion employee Anat Har-Gil has taken the exhibition of Nobel Laureate Dan Shechtman's handmade jewelry to MadaTech - the Israel National Musem of Science, Technology and Space. Here, alongside the 15 unique pieces of silver and enamel jewels, some with embedded semiprecious stones, the visitor learns more about Shechtman the scientist.
One whole wall is devoted to items pertaining to Shechtman's 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, including the original lab logbook recording the discovery of the first quasicrystals, and Nobel memorabilia in the form of the Nobel Medal and Diploma awarded to Shechtman in Stockholm.
The opposite wall presents the story of Shechtman's hobby of jewelry making, as well as the timeline of his scientific discovery and the 30 years subsequent to it until achieving the ultimate scientific recognition.
At the opening, Shechtman explained the significance of the artifacts, notably the exquisite handcrafted diploma that represents a five-sided kite, the tail of which comprises digits that on closer inspection turn out to be the Fibonacci sequence.
Shechtman is chair of MadaTech's Academic committee.
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