What award did Dan Shechtman receive in 2011?
Pulitzer Prize
Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Grammy Award
Answer
Dan Shechtman received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2011 for his discovery of quasicrystals, a new form of matter that was not predicted by the prevailing theories of solid-state physics. Shechtman's discovery was met with skepticism at first, but it eventually led to a new understanding of the structure of solids.
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