Visit of the Nobel Prize Laureate

Prof. Daniel Shechtman , the Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry 2011 for the discovery of quasicrystals, visited the Institute of Physics on April 19, 2013.

Prof. Daniel Shechtman , the Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry 2011 for the discovery of quasicrystals, visited the Institute of Physics on April 19, 2013. Daniel Shechtman is the Professor of Materials Science at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and the Professor of Materials Science at Iowa State University.
 
Scientists of the Laboratory for the Physics of Transport Phenomena of the Institute of Physics (Ana Smontara, Jovica Ivkov, Petar Popčević, and Kristijan Velebit) and collaborators ( Ante Bilušić, Željko Bihar and Denis Stanić ) have, for a number of years, investigated the physical properties of quasi-periodic materials that were the object of the discovery which resulted in the Nobel Prize.

Announcement of the visit.

The arrival of the Israeli Nobel Prize winner Daniel Shechtman (second from right), Ana Smontara greeting the ambassador of the State of Israel in Croatia Josef Amrani (third from the left) to the Institute of Physics.

The scientists of the Institute of Physics with the Nobel Laureate Daniel Shechtman at the entrance of the Institute of Physics.

Ana Smontara (head of the Laboratory for the Physics of Transport Phenomena) and Daniel Shechtman on the way to the lecture room of the Institute.

The scientists of the Institute of Physics carefully listen to Nobel Laureate Daniel Shechtman talking about importance of persistency in the realization of their ideas.

Daniel Shechtman in discussion with the young scientists of the Institute of Physics.

The scientists of the Laboratory for the Physics of Transport Phenomena, Institute of Physics with Daniel Shechtman in the lecture room of the Institute of Physics. From left to right: Petar Popčević, Ana Smontara, Daniel Shechtman and Kristijan Velebit.