By KENNETH CHANG Published: October 5, 2011
An Israeli scientist won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering quasicrystals, a material in which atoms were packed together in a well-defined pattern that never repeats.
slobodni prijevod
Izraelski znanstvenik dobio je ove godine Nobelovu nagradu za kemiju zbog otkrića "quazicrystals" ( lažnih kristala)- materijala u koji se "pakiraju" atomi na
način, koji se nikada ne ponavlja.
U posljednje vrijeme se obično Nobelove nagrade podijele
među dvije ili tri
osobe, ali se ove godine Nobelova nagrada za kemiju,
uz 10 milijuna švedskih
kruna, dodijelila samo jednom znanstveniku
Danu Shechtmanu, starom 70
godina koji je profesor na
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology u Haifi.
Dr. Shechtman je također profesor na Iowa State University
i istraživač u
United States Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory. ...
Izraelski lideri su oduševljeni i ponosni za desetu Nobelu nagradu
koju su dobili građani Izraela, čija je populacija manja od 8.milijuna
stanovnika. Prije dvije godine je Ada E. Yonath
sa Weizmannovog instituta dijelila Nobelu nagradu .
Šimon Peres, izraelski predsjednik je razgovarao (telefonom)
sa dr. Schechtmanom na novoj konferenciji u Haifi, i kazao:
"Profesore Schechtman, vi ste zaista danas dali veliki dar
državi Izrael", a premijer Benjamin Netanyahu je kazao
"svaki Izraelac je danas sretan i svaki Židov na svijetu je ponosan".
Dr.Schechtman je rođen i školovan u Izraelu.
Prilikom nove konferencije on je je rekao:
"Proslava se ne odnosi samo na Technion i na državu Izrael,
već i na znanost širom svijeta. Danas ima tisuće znanstvenika u
svijetu koji rade na području kojeg sam razvio, i ja sam siguran
da i oni smatraju ovu nagradu kao svoj uspjeh
i da je zaista
zaslužuju.
Bez tih tisuća, nauka ne bi bila tu gdje se danas nalazi".
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Još jedna vijest o Nobelovoj nagradi
Jews make strong showing among 2011
Nobel Prize winners
Thursday, October 6, 2011
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Haaretz By Elka Looks
Israeli scientist
Daniel Shechtman has made headlines
at home for winning the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry,
but he is not the onlyJewish recipient,
with members of the tribe making a strong showing
this year in both medicine and physics.
Ralph Steinman and Bruce
Beutler were awarded
the Nobel Prize for medicine for their discoveries
on the immune system along
with French biologist Jules Hoffmann.
Steinman will receive the award posthumously,
passing just three days before the
Nobel committee announced
that he was among the winners.
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A kako protumačiti ovu vijest
Swedish academics call for boycott of Israeli institutions
October 6, 2011
(JTA) -- More than 200 professors and students from Sweden have signed on
to a call for an academic boycott of Israeli institutions.
The boycott petition was initiated by the Action Group for the Boycott
of Israel at the
Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
According to the petition, "Israeli academic institutions are deeply
complicit in
Israel's
occupation of Palestine.
“It is incongruous that in the week that an Israeli scientist was
awarded the
Nobel Prize by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,
a group of Swedish academics are calling for a boycott of Israeli
educational
institutions,” Kantor said.