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Published October 05, 2011, 12:00 AM

Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman


Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman poses for photographers during a news conference at the Haifa Technion, Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011. Shechtman won the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for his discovery of quasicrystals, a mosaic-like chemical structure that researchers previously thought was impossible. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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