How much of the Nobel Prize money did Dan Shechtman donate to the Technion?
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Israeli physicist Dan Shechtman donated all of his Nobel Prize money to the Technion, Israel's Institute of Technology. He won the prize in 2011 for his discovery of quasicrystals, a new type of solid material that does not fit into the traditional crystal structure model. Shechtman said he wanted to use the money to help other scientists and students at the Technion.
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