Dan Shechtman receiving his Nobel Prize from His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 2011. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2011
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Dan Shechtman after receiving his Nobel Prize at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 2011. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2011
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Dan Shechtman with family and friends after the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony, 10 December 2011. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2011
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Mrs Claudia Steinman, wife of the late Medicine Laureate Ralph M. Steinman, arrives at the Nobel Banquet accompanied by Chemistry Laureate Dan Shechtman. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2011
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Dan Shechtman and Mrs Claudia Steinman, wife of the late Medicine Laureate Ralph M. Steinman, at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2011. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2011
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Dan Shechtman delivering his banquet speech.

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Eleven of the thirteen 2011 Nobel Laureates assembled for a group photo during their visit to the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, 12 December 2011. Back row, left to right: Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Tawakkol Karman and Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Laureates in Physics Brian P. Schmidt, Saul Perlmutter and Adam G. Riess, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Dan Shechtman and Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine Bruce A. Beutler. Front row, left to right: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Laureate in Economic Sciences Christopher A. Sims, Nobel Laureate in Literature Tomas Tranströmer and Laureate in Economic Sciences Thomas J. Sargent.

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Recording of Nobel Media's TV-program 'Nobel Minds', hosted by Zeinab Badawi, BBC World News, in the Bernadotte Library at the Royal Palace, 9 December 2011.

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Dan Shechtman at Nobel Media's recording of the TV-program 'Nobel Minds' in the Bernadotte Library at the Royal Palace, 9 December 2011.

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Dan Shechtman delivering his Nobel Lecture at Aula Magna, Stockholm University, on 8 December 2011. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2011
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Like many Nobel Laureates before him, Dan Shechtman autographs a chair at Bistro Nobel at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, 6 December 2011.

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Portrait of Dan Shechtman.

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