Very inspirational that such a small country, housing the remnant of European Jewry after the Holocaust, plus the ingathered Jewish communities from the Arab world, Africa, North and South America, a tiny country, the size of New Jersey, with a small population, can continally pull off feats like today's frontpage article in the New York Times. Read on (and have a meaningful Yom Kippur)....
Daniel Shechtman of Israel Is Awarded Nobel Prize in ChemistrySTOCKHOLM (AP) — Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman won the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for his discovery of quasicrystals.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said his discovery in 1982 fundamentally changed the way chemists look at solid matter.
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/10/05/science/AP-EU-SCI-Nobel-Chemistry.html?emc=na
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