2011 Nobel Laureate Shechtman at NBS in 1985 (IMAGE)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

2011 Nobel Laureate Shechtman at NBS in 1985

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Meeting at the National Bureau of Standards (now known as the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST) in 1985 just months after shaking the foundations of materials science with publication of his discovery of quasicrystals, Daniel Shechtman, winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, discusses the material’s surprising atomic structure with collaborators. From left to right are Shechtman; Frank Biancaniello, NIST; Denis Gratias, National Science Research Center, France; John Cahn, NIST; Leonid Bendersky, Johns Hopkins University (now at NIST); and Robert Schaefer, NIST.

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H. Mark Helfer/NIST

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