Who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2011 with Dan Shechtman?
He was the sole recipient
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Answer
Dan Shechtman was the sole recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of quasicrystals. He is a physicist and materials scientist who was born in Israel in 1941. Shechtman's work on quasicrystals began in the 1970s, when he was working at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.
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