Ridiculed, kicked out of a lab, but walks off with this years Nobel Prize for chemistry. A lesson to science in tolerating views that go against established beliefs.
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The Nobel prize for chemistry has gone to a single researcher for his discovery of the structure of quasicrystals. The new structural form was previously thought to be impossible and provoked controversy.
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Dr Shechtman had to fight a fierce battle against established science to convince others of what he had first seen in his lab at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Washington - formerly called the National Bureau of Standards - on an April morning in 1982.
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The Israeli researcher was later told that he was a disgrace to the group and asked to leave.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15181187