丹尼尔-舍特曼难以置信的发现获得诺贝尔化学奖

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以色列科学家以其难以置信的发现获得今年的诺贝尔化学奖。因为这一发现，他曾经被勒令辞去研究职位。

现年70岁的丹尼尔-舍特曼任职在海法的以色列理工学院。1982年在美国丹尼尔-舍特曼发现金属合金中的原子可以不遵循晶体学规则形成不重复的序列。这种不规则的序列很像阿拉伯的马赛克。

这一发现被命名为准晶体。这种准晶体序列被认为不能形成晶体固体。

舍特曼博士向世界呈现了准晶体不规则堆积的事实。由于这一发现完全违背晶体学准则，舍特曼博士的发现不被科学界接纳，并且因此受到责难。两届诺贝尔化学奖得主美国化学家萊納斯·鮑林这样评述舍特曼博士的发现：没有准晶体，只有准科学家。

瑞典皇家科学院在授予舍特曼博士诺贝尔化学奖时介绍，舍特曼博士以其惊人的毅力，最终被科学界接纳，并改变科学界对物质特性认识的观点。

瑞典皇家科学院继续介绍, 这种在西班牙的萨苏埃拉皇宫和伊朗馬什哈德神坛发现的中世纪不规则的伊斯兰马赛克有助于科学家接受准晶体原子不规则堆积的事实。

英国利物浦大学若南。马科格拉兹教授承认今年诺贝尔化学奖的意义在于让更多的科学家重视不寻常的结果，不要把重大发现作为测试错误而弃之不顾。

Unbelievable discovery wins chemistry prize for Daniel Shechtman

丹尼尔-舍特曼难以置信的发现获得诺贝尔化学奖

By Steve Connor, Science Editor

英国独立报科学编辑：斯蒂夫。孔诺尔

Thursday, 6 October 2011

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Daniel Shechtman has at last been recognised for his discovery of quasicrystals

An Israeli scientist who was once asked to resign his research post because his discovery of a new class of solid material was too unbelievable has won this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry – for that same discovery.

以色列科学家以其难以置信的发现获得今年的诺贝尔化学奖。因为这一发现，他曾经被勒令辞去研究职位。

Daniel Shechtman, 70, of the Technion Institute in Haifa, was working in the United States in 1982 when he observed that the arrangement of atoms in a metal alloy can break the rules of crystallography by forming unrepeating patterns, much like certain irregular mosaics seen in the Arab world.

现年70岁的丹尼尔-舍特曼任职在海法的以色列理工学院。1982年在美国丹尼尔-舍特曼发现金属合金中的原子可以不遵循晶体学规则形成不重复的序列。这种不规则的序列很像阿拉伯的马赛克

At the time, the configuration found in these "quasicrystals" was considered impossible because regular patterns were considered essential for a crystal solid to form.

这一发现被命名为准晶体。这种准晶体序列被认为不能形成晶体固体。

As a result, Dr Schechtman suffered the opprobrium of the scientific establishment, embodied by the US chemist and double-Nobel laureate Linus Pauling, who said: "There is no thing as quasicrystals, only quasi-scientists." But Dr Shechtman showed that the atoms in his crystal were packed in a pattern that could not be repeated.

舍特曼博士向世界呈现了准晶体不规则堆积的事实。由于这一发现完全违背晶体学准则，舍特曼博士的发现不被科学界接纳，并且因此受到责难。两届诺贝尔化学奖得主美国化学家萊納斯·鮑林这样评述舍特曼博士的发现：没有准晶体，只有准科学家。

He eventually forced his fellow scientists to reconsider how they viewed the nature of matter, according to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awards the chemistry Nobel.

瑞典皇家科学院在授予舍特曼博士诺贝尔化学奖时介绍，舍特曼博士以其惊人的毅力，最终被科学界接纳，并改变科学界对物质特性认识的观点。

"Aperiodic mosaics, such as those found in the medieval Islamic mosaics of the Alhambra Palace in Spain and the Darb-i Imam Shrine in Iran, have helped scientists understand what quasicrystals look like at the atomic level," the academy said.

瑞典皇家科学院继续介绍, 这种在西班牙的萨苏埃拉皇宫和伊朗馬什哈德神坛发现的中世纪不规则的伊斯兰马赛克有助于科学家接受准晶体原子不规则堆积的事实。

Professor Ronan McGrath, of the University of Liverpool, said: "Lesser scientists might have put his unusual result to one side and dismissed it as a measurement error."

英国利物浦大学若南。马科格拉兹教授承认今年诺贝尔化学奖的意义在于让更多的科学家重视不寻常的结果，不要把重大发现作为测试错误而弃之不顾。