Daniel Shechtman, an Israeli professor who has studied the effect of the defect structure of CVD diamond on its growth and properties, has won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2011 of 10 million Swedish Kronor (US$1.46 million) to the Technion professor "for the discovery of quasicrystals".
Shechtman, who was born 1941 in TelAviv in Israel and has a Ph.D. from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, studied the effect of the defect structure of CVDdiamond on its growth and properties during a Sabbatical at theNational Institute of Standards and Technology between 1992-1994.
One of his significant areas of research deals with the nucleation and growth of CVD diamond films.
-The Israeli Diamond Industry
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