2011 Nobel prize laureate Dan Shechtman talks about quasicrystals, jewelry and being stubborn. Nachrichten aus der Chemie: Professor Shechtman, this is not your first Nobel-Prize-Meeting now. You have already attended last year the Physics Meeting. But you are a Chemistry Nobel Prize Winner. Was this a surprise for you? Dan Shechtman: That it was in Chemistry? Yes. And I shouldn't be surprised, and yet I was. Because all or most of the crystallography prizes I have received were in Chemistry, not in Physics. Someone told me, this year you are nominated again for the Nobel prize. And I assumed it was by physics. I was told that in the Nobel co...