[the invisib1e hand]

"A good scientist is a humble and listening scientist and not one that is sure 100 percent in what he read in the textbooks," Shechtman said.

HERETIC!

[Da Coyote]

But, but, he couldn’t have been correct.

After all, the “consensus” was that he was wrong.

And we all know that when the majority of scientists disagree with you, you must be wrong.

Sound familiar?

(Please note the only partial sarcasm, the facts were that the majority of real scientists did not agree with AGW.)

[rlmorel]

Good for him. Would I have the strength to stand up to the criticism like that, to not get bitter?

He sounds like he isn’t bitter, but...how could he not be?

Now all we need to do is get the global warming scam confirmed as hooey so we can get the reputations of all those tarnished scientists back to their original sheen.

[pyx]

Shechtman is a professor at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel. He is the 10th Israeli Nobel winner, a great source of pride in a nation of just 7.8 million people.

As this accomplishment should be. Congratulations, Dr. Shechtman !

[allmendream]

Yikes; the Pauling quote is quite damning!

Looks like it took about five to seven years, and better evidence, and the scientific community came around - accepted his findings - and made significant discoveries and applications with his findings.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and it took him a few years to gather it.

But the last thing we need is scientists like Pauling calling someone diligently working to GATHER said evidence a “quasi-scientist”.

[MichaelP]

That's not the first time a scientist has come up with an idea that doesn't fit within the Scientific Community, but has later been proved correct. Revenge is sweet when taken in slow bites!

Mike

[MestaMachine]

Mazeltov!

[bajabaja]

Good that he lived long enough to see vindication of this sort.

[Slings and Arrows]

Ping!

[SJackson]

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What's next, a prize for a man caused global warming disbeliever?

[Bellflower]

"Anytime you have a discovery that changes the conventional wisdom that's 200 years old, that's something that's really remarkable," said Princeton University physicist Paul J. Steinhardt, who coined the term "quasicrystals" and had been doing theoretical work on them before Shechtman reported finding the real thing.

Is the name Steinhardt Jewish? He theorized quasicrystals before they were ever found.