Based on recent distributions of the Nobel prize for this or that, Mr Schechtman should have been awarded the prize in 1981 for his 1982 discovery.
Israeli among 4 Jewish scientists to win Nobels
An Israeli scientist won the 2011 Nobel Prize for chemistry, and Jewish scientists also took prizes in physics and medicine.
Daniel Shechtman, 70, a distinguished professor at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, was announced as a Nobel winner on Wednesday for his discovery of quasicrystals, mosaics of atoms that form regular patterns that never repeat themselves.
There is an interesting aspect to the Nobel Prize. If you look at the Peace and Literature prizes, they are much more politicized. They are even I believe awarded by a different group. The Peace prize has after all been awarded to the likes of terrorists like Yassir Arafat, and to people who have done nothing to deserve it (our current president, for example).
The prizes awarded to physicists, chemists, economists etc are typically awarded to people who have worked in their field for decades to get to that point. (Norman Borlaug, who did a lot of the agricultural work that produced the green revolution also comes to mind.)
BTW, the Israelis have been awarded over 150 Nobel Prizes in those fields.
As far as I can tell, the whole Muslim world has been awarded something like 10 or so. Considering the 1.3B (or is it 1.5 or 1.7 ? It depends on what number CAIR comes up with in a given week) Muslims in the world compared to the roughly 15M or so Israelis, that is quite a lopsided ratio.
There is an interesting aspect to the Nobel Prize. If you look at the Peace and Literature prizes, they are much more politicized. They are even I believe awarded by a different group. The Peace prize has after all been awarded to the likes of terrorists like Yassir Arafat, and to people who have done nothing to deserve it (our current president, for example).
The prizes awarded to physicists, chemists, economists etc are typically awarded to people who have worked in their field for decades to get to that point. (Norman Borlaug, who did a lot of the agricultural work that produced the green revolution also comes to mind.)
BTW, the Israelis have been awarded over 150 Nobel Prizes in those fields.
As far as I can tell, the whole Muslim world has been awarded something like 10 or so. Considering the 1.3B (or is it 1.5 or 1.7 ? It depends on what number CAIR comes up with in a given week) Muslims in the world compared to the roughly 15M or so Israelis, that is quite a lopsided ratio.