Congratulations to Daniel Schechtman from the Technion, and to Israel, upon Shechtman's being awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2011.

I don't understand what he did - it is all Greek to me, as they say, but he made some discovery of quasicrystals that  will alter "how chemists conceive of solid matter".

Whatever he did, congrats to him and to Israel.

Here is the Nobel Press Release.