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Posted Wednesday 6th March 2013 at 1.53pm
Israel
I'm at the Technion in Haifa. I heard a story the other day about a Technion scientist, Daniel Shechtman, who discovered quasi-crystals - molecules that are constructed in an ordered but non-periodic way. This discovery, in 1982, was ridiculed and he was asked to leave his research group. Linus Pauling even said "Danny Shechtman is talking nonsense. There is no such thing as quasicrystals, only quasi-scientists." What a great line!
Shechtman won the Nobel prize for chemistry in 2011 for his work. That's got to feel good.
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