Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded

Israeli chemist, Daniel Schechtman, was awared the the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery in 1982 of quasi-crystals.  Quasi-crystals are solids in which the atoms are arranged in regular patterns (that is the pattern can be described mathematically), but the pattern does not repeat itself.  So radical is this claim that when Schechtman originally announced his findings he was asked to leave his research team.  You can read the official press release here.