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Dan Shechtman

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Seven Nobel laureates have appealed to the heads of Harvard, MIT and Pennsylvania over the hesitancy in dealing with anti-Semitism

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The Seven expressed their concern over the hesitant responses of the institutions' leadership to condemn the calls for genocide
Sandy Sherman and CEO of the Wolf Foundation Reot Yanon-Berman. Photo: The Wolf Foundation

The Great World Journey for the Wolf Foundation Awards

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After two consecutive years in which it was not possible to hold the Wolf Prize awarding ceremony in the Knesset, the foundation's senior officials, led by the Chairman Prof. Dan Shechtman and the CEO Reut Yeinon-Berman, traveled around the world and held ceremonies at the universities of the 15 winners. In many cases it was the first local event since the outbreak of the Corona epidemic
The President of the State and Chairman of the Wolf Foundation Professor Dan Shechtman at the announcement ceremony at the President's House. Source: screenshot from the President's Facebook page.

Among the 2018 Wolf Prize winners: the researcher who sequenced the honey bee genome and quantum computing researchers

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Prof. Dan Shechtman in his laboratory near the electron microscope. Photo: Technion

Prof. Dan Shechtman, Chairman of the Wolf Foundation: No party guarantees the restoration of scientific research in Israel and the prevention of brain drain

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Prof. Dan Shechtman. Photography: Itai Nebo

Professors Dan Shechtman and David Harel were elected to the American Academy

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Albert Einstein, Chaim Weizmann later the first president (from left) Menachem Oshiskin at a meeting in 1921. From Wikipedia

All the President's scientists

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Prof. Dan Shechtman at the "Pedagogy in the Age of Education" conference of the Initiative for Applied Research in Education 2610117

Prof. Dan Shechtman in an interview with Channel 1: wants to run for president

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Prof. Danny Shechtman. Photo: Technion

"The government will provide a good education, and the parents should send their children to learn what is necessary for them to become useful citizens and cultured people"

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Prof. Dan Shechtman receives an honorary statuette from Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin. Next to them is MK Ronit Tirosh. PR photo, Israel Sun

Knesset Speaker Robbie Rivlin, "If we want more Shechtmans, we need to invest in creating an appropriate educational and scientific atmosphere"

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Quasi-crystal from the Koryak Mountains in Russia. Photo: Paul Steinhart, Princeton University

Impossible quasi-crystals came from space

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A series of stamps to mark the end of the era of ferries

A new civil year - an opportunity to summarize the year 2011 in science: the end of the era of shuttles, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the Higgs boson

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Prof. Mario Livio, in 2006. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

Prof. Mario Livio: Adam Rees has a chance for a second Nobel * Proud of Dan Shechtman's achievement

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Prof. Dan Shechtman receives the Nobel Prize from the King of Sweden Carl Gustav XVI. Screenshot from Channel 16 broadcasts

Prof. Dan Schechtman thanked everyone who helped him at the beginning of the way to establish the science of Caustic crystals

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Prof. Dan Shechtman receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry from the King of Sweden, December 10, 2011. Screenshot: from a Channel 1 broadcast

Prof. Sven Lydin from the Swedish Academy of Sciences: Prof. Shechtman's case demonstrates that the dwarf standing on the giant's shoulders sees and the giant is blind

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From left to right: Professor Shechtman, Ambassador Benny Dagan, Irit Dagan and Tzipi Shechtman in the lobby of the Grand Hotel. Photo: Technion spokespeople

Tonight at 17:00 the ceremony of awarding the Nobel Prize to Prof. Danny Shechtman

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Prof. Shechtman at the dinner with the business community of Stockholm, initiated by the Adam-Bonier Foundation. Photo: Technion spokespeople

Professor Dan Shechtman spoke to 85 heads of the economy and the economy in Sweden: "I tell my students: stop dreaming about an exit"

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Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and economics for 2011 at a press conference in Stockholm. Photo: Technion spokespeople

Professor Dan Shechtman at a press conference in Stockholm: I didn't break because I believe in my science

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Lars Heikenstein at the press conference at the Nobel Foundation. Photo: Technion spokespeople

The CEO of the Nobel Foundation on Professor Shechtman's win: "The cases where a person wins the prize alone, without partners, are rare, and they will be rarer in the future"

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quasi-crystals. From Wikipedia

From Quasi-Crystals to the Nobel Prize / Louisa Meshi and Adin Stern

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Professor Shechtman thanks his well-wishers. To his left - Professor Peretz Lavi, president of the Technion. Photo: Shlomo Shem, spokeswoman for the Technion.

The Technion celebrated a Nobel Prize with Professor Danny Shechtman

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The cover of the book drive and curiosity by Ishtavan Hargitai, Prometheus Publishing

Exclusive to the Hidan website: the chapter dealing with Prof. Dan Shechtman - impossible material, from Ishtavan Hargitay's book Drive And Curiosity

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Prof. Ishtavan Hargitai. Photo courtesy of the author

How and why did the winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Dan Shechtman, persist even though he was rejected?

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Prof. Dan Shechtman at the "Pedagogy in the Age of Education" conference of the Initiative for Applied Research in Education 2610117

Prof. Dan Shechtman: "There are big holes in education and the Israeli government must correct the injustice in which half of the students do not study core studies"

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Figure 3. Different types of symmetry in crystals. The pattern of the 5th order symmetry crystal will never repeat itself.

On minerals, knits and gems

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Prof. Dan Shechtman and the editor of the science website Avi Blizovsky, 5/10/2011

Prof. Shechtman in an interview with the Hadaan website: "Ilan Blach, John Kahn and Dennis Gratis deserved to share the Nobel with me"

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