Me he enterado a través de El País que la Real Academia de Ciencias Sueca ha otorgado el premio Nobel de Química de 2011 al investigador Daniel Shechtman del Instituto de Tecnología de Israel en Haifa por su trabajo sobre los cuasicristales.
En el comunicado, la Academia Sueca establece que:
In quasicrystals, we find the fascinating mosaics of the Arabic world reproduced at the level of atoms: regular patterns that never repeat themselves. However, the configuration found in quasicrystals was considered impossible, and Dan Shechtman had to fight a fierce battle against established science. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011 has fundamentally altered how chemists conceive of solid matter.