In what year did Shechtman win the Nobel Prize?
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Shechtman won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2011 for his discovery of quasicrystals. Quasicrystals are a new type of solid material that has some of the properties of crystals, but does not have the regular, repeating pattern of atoms that is characteristic of crystals.
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