Chemistry at 2011( part 3)

We celebrated 2011 as International Year of Chemistry(IYC).We celebrated the golden jubilee of the victory of Madam Curie. While replacing the old calendar with new, those who love chemistry will feel a little bit hesitation.Because it was our year, our own year..So the person who got Nobel prize in the year of 2011 is really special, very very special, I feel proud to say that name..The great Chemist Dan shechtman..The discoverer of Quasi crystal. Shechtman was the first who proposed the existance of five fold symmetry of crystals.. "IMPOSSIBLE,RIDICULOUS," this was the opinion of whole world..Even Linus Pauling discarded this discovery..(Linus Pauling is the living genius in chemistry,who introduced the concept of hybridisation,got nobel prize twice ).What to say? Shechtman got expelled from his lab. Have you ever seen the plants of the desert.In draught, we cant even feel their presence.But when rain comes, you will be wondered.. Shechtman also did the same..He kept on doing his work.He was confident that once the whole world will approve his findings.. Sometimes after many years, world will remember 2011 as the begining of quasi crystal era..such are the wide applications of Quasi crystals.