2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Periodic Table of Videos

[TheArengorn]

"this prize is really quite exiting" says him while not exited at all :P

[ExtremlyFail]

I'm sorry but his nobel prize was in fact for discovering a five fold crystal...., otherwise, really good video!

[Anastius]

@ExtremlyFail From The Official Web Site of the Nobel Prize:

"The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011 was awarded to Dan Shechtman 'for the discovery of quasicrystals'."

[tomsta117]

Look at his desktop

[Unkn0wnumb3rs]

Should've split that chocolate into 10 pieces to celebrate!

[scottswan]

I thought of this video when tiling my floors this weekend. We got a mix of 18" and 12" square tiles. I wanted to see how far I could get without repeating a pattern so I cut many of the 12" in half or even 1/4 and have them completely random. I also made it so 4 corners never meet together. It was fun and looks really cool!

[k3xin2]

@scottswan We need a video of this!

[cryptoknight42]

It's striking that while so rare in inorganic chemistry, 5 fold rotational symmetry shows up all the time in nature- flowers, starfishes etc.

Has anyone proven, or even given serious treatment to the idea that this incomprehensible long range order is due to quantum entanglement?

[Rockyroopam]

i love how the old prof was able to explain everything to us when he didn't even know who the guy was in the beginning :P

[MurCurieux]

Brilliant!

[alekkthewolf]

Glad that quasicrystals made it to the prize this year. I think it will definitely change the way we build electronic components, surfaces, and deepen our understanding of not only chemistry but physics and mathematics.

[chnaveedjawaid]

I studied Chemistry till the 12th grade then I move to computer engineering due to some reasons but my love for this never went down and since the day I found "Periodic Table of Videos' or "periodicvideos" I got my hunger for chemistry getting satisfied periodically and yes I am seriously in love with professor's knowledge and his way of describing.. watching this for 2.5 years now but commented first day today :) cuz I really really loved this one.

AND PROFESSOR DESERVER A NOBEL PRIZE.

[ExtraCarnex]

Am i mad or is that a picture of Dawkins on the shelf.

[FiliPinoy95]

haha the video title made me think the professor won it!!!

[ProjectD13X]

You're telling me you didn't win it Professor? Seems like something is up with that. <3

[sharkbarf1]

share the chocolate!

[subliminalvibes]

This is one of my favourite Periodic Videos now.

Brilliant!

[fokGoogol]

The professor should arrange his Windows desktop icons as a periodic table. I bet someone here is willing to make a nice wallpaper in the proper resolution (and with the proper icon snapping positions)! :)

[ricardo4ever]

I really wish you where my teacher , or better yet all of you guys where me Chemistry teacher... I would really learn much more Chemistry .

[bigboy45454545]

What are the implications of this to say future materials. I'm thinking properties in materials never seen before. Roswell type space aluminum perhaps? Just kidding. 

[GammahooX]

@bigboy45454545 This discovery is 30 years old. xP

[bradkey98765]

Good video, but do you really need 175 icons on your desctop?

[pepsibookcat]

The Professor's Hair on particularly glorious display! Nobel Prize winners tie! Nobel Prize chocolates! Dog toys! Moriarty! Penrose Tiling!

I. Can't. Stop. Smiling.

*blissful sigh*

[525047]

Oh all science is physics.

[MarkArandjus]

The sibling rivalry between physics and chemistry is adorable isn't it :P

[Chirigami]

Where does the Professor buy his ties? I want some of them!!!

[thecanadian1313]

I want cool ties T.T

[guifercon]

Yes... It's time to stop being so superior and start looking to the past with different eyes...

There are lots of clues that applies to today's technology...

[nilbud]

@guifercon How's the head injury?

[geradical]

Hey!! You had two chocolate Nobels Professor. You could of given Brady one :/ lol.

[nilbud]

@geradical Could have.

[linjedomarn99]

Tummen upp om du är svensk!

[Daxmau5]

The Professor is like all the apple fans when the new iPhone is being released xD

[melekhthechanger88]

do these kind of shapes have any effects on group theory with there D3h symmetry or anything like that? is the spectrum on them not very very strange?

[Ts6451]

Hmmm. The division of the sciences dealing with nature and the universe seems to be largely arbitrary, as a convenient way to divide the fields based on tradition and human use, but there is bound to be subject relevant to several fields.

[Jazobsen]

i think professor Martyn should have a Nobel Prize for all the movies he contributed with in periodicvideos TY channel, and Brady with a movie award :)

[Muonen]

How do you get a chocolate Nobel medal? Are they sent out from Stockholm?

[squidfanny]

Didn't Obama win the nobel prize for doing, erm, nothing at all?

[screemingbison]

@squidfanny Actually No.... Not the "Physics" Nobel Prize... The 2009 Nobel "Peace" Prize was awarded to Obama for his passionate and unbridled efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between varying peoples. FYI - Started in 1901, the Nobel Prize has been awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace. Now you know.

[itsMinuteMaid]

OMG! That was just 4 days after I was born! That's so cool

[TheSurreyThug]

Best Afro Ever.

[BarneySaysHi]

At 1:36 "I'm interested in how things bond" You must be a fan of Ian Fleming then (the writer, not the chemist).

[tazzenders]

i want you for the nobel prize.

[Acerola211]

Well, hey, Watson and Crick were physicists, if that makes you feel any better. :P Physicists are the popular jocks of academia . . .

[TheErinTaylor]

Where do you get all of these awesome ties?!

[JSnyder1946]

MMMMMMMMMMM!!!

I like the Nobel Prize chocolates!!!!!!!!!!!

[sevenheadedweasel]

Professor has a series case of old man desktop. FOLDERS!

[screemingbison]

@sevenheadedweasel  roflmao!!!

[cooROPyoBODY]

Professor Martyn is just pure awesome

[Buddyb309]

Old man and his basket of toys in his office. awesome

[krisptreats]

so is it a 3d tessellation?

well either way my mind is blown...

[DeadHappyFilm]

I WANT HIS HAIR! >.<

[whiterottenrabbit]

I like it how The Professor pronounces names, he always gets it right!

[LilReaper1010]

that floor is an optical illusion

[nate22621]

The professors are amazing!

[Sparkygravity]

question for the professor: If you could have any molecule modeled into a doggy-toy, which molecule would you choose?

[12x]

nice hair. 

[5000loto]

sounds like a good place for group theory (math, not psychology)

[davidsuggitt]

Notice the example of positive synchronicity at 7:16 :) "How exciting!" my friend Bashar would say :)

[cryptoknight42]

@davidsuggitt I've always been fascinated how Penrose discovered the tiles with abstract math, then shortly thereafter they found a real world example of them. It's as if they are an idea that was sitting in the collective unconsciousness. I think that both the quasicrystals and synchronicity are caused by quantum entanglement, but it's hard getting people in the same room familiar with these concepts to talk to each other.

[dmlandrum]

Your videos have been some of the best on the web for explaining complex scientific concepts, Brady. Please keep up the good work for as long as you can.

And I still think Prof. Moriarty should have his own TV show. :)

[thermosinthesis]

Geez........ I got a headache.

[FelipeZucchetti]

Thanks for your videos people...is always interesting...

[josyula547]

Is that called the group theory in mathematics ?

Or some other ?

It's fantastic discovery . Irony is that people here in India drew that pattern from ages !

Even today to celebrate Dusherra my mom drew it in front of my house . it's believed that drawing these patterns will invite the gods! :)

PS : I don't know the what these kind of pattern's called in Hindi,but in Telugu they're called Muggu.

[LukasS]

Thank you Brady!

[MindLessWiz]

That's definitely a reason to be proud of my country. :)

I wanted to go to the Technion, ended up at Tel Aviv University due to distance considerations.

I'm starting my first year in Physics and Computer Science at the end of this month!

[hornsofthebull]

super video. ALL the news channels that I watched that announced this did a terrible job of explaining what Schectman discovered. Sure they had pictures and factually correct statements but it falls to you guys to deliver a slice of brilliant understanding into my world. Thank you.

[periodicvideos]

@hornsofthebull thanks for that... enjoyed that comment!

[wpaxton]

If he made the discovery in 1982 why did he get the prize in 2011? Is the Nobel Committee that far behind?

[2334Johnlegend34]

@wpaxton I think the short answer here would be: he still had to prove it and convince his fellow scientists.

[chrisofnottingham]

Another great video

[Fritzisor]

304 views and 337 likes. relativity @ work :))

[pepperplume]

my brain! its been blown!

[GVlogs]

1:15 LEGEND !

[IEnumerable]

1 person believes that 10 fold symmetry is out.

[wereluva]

omg studying crystal structures in first year chem... kill me = =

[aribond1]

Poliakoff 2012

[4jonah]

He said chocolate in the beginning and that sort of stole my attention.

[Zee96969696]

these videos make me wanna be a scientist

[wilkes982]

i didnt know that the professor was in perth D: i wanted to go see him

[Barnekkid]

The Professor is so cool. I kind of wondered though, if the discovery was made in 1982, why is Shechtman only receiving the prize now, almost thirty years later?

[urantivirus]

Dear god, that desktop! I thought mine was bad.

[trunkszetto]

one of my favorite parts of the announcement of the Nobel prize winners is seeing what the Nottingham professors have to say about them. :D

[retsilla88]

Quasicrystals, one of my favourite topics in materials engineering

[Zdawg2324]

BATTLE ROYALE: Periodic Videos vs. Sixty Symbols!

[PCR8t8]

That's my Uni! Damn... he was there and I wasn't. Damn my study schedule.

[1983Bantam]

PROFESSOR, PLEASE SAY THE PHRASE "GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE!" AT SOME POINT IN A VIDEO

[gulllars]

@1983Bantam Hubert J. Farnsworth :)

+1, with Prof. Poliakoff's way of speaking it would sound cool.

[WeaselWJ]

Cool.

[sgtolsen]

Yay Iowa State University! I live 2 hours from there!

[trespire]

Congratulations to both professors on an intelligent and well structured explanation of the subject matter, very well presented. Learned quite a lot from this video.

[superdau]

Chemistry is just the Physics of the outer electron shell :P

[usagisinc]

@paintballer9110 the guy with the awesome crazy hairs name is Professor Martin Poliakoff

[PBDPBD]

Aaaah! he grabbed the and split the chocolate with his bare hands!

I hope he washed his hands first...

[Clnlattila]

love periodic videos great way to learn chemistry but much funner than reading textbooks

[culwin]

Brady should get the Nobel Prize in video-making

[singlespies]

Cool; been looking forward to this video all day while I was at work! Strange that quasi-crystals seems more like a physics discovery but then last year they gave the Nobel in physics for graphene research - which seems more like chemistry (to me). Oh, well, no complaints. Thanks for making the models!

[raguaviva]

what a funny video!!

[jurryaanyy]

wow you need to clean up your desktop, doctor.

[TheAmbiguousNinja]

Professor, when are you going to receive the Nobel Peace Prize that you deserve?

[dubaipete]

Always with passion, devoid of pomp, engaging and informative. Thanks again people!

[noobenstein]

You removed my comment for saying those liars who attacked the discoverer of the quasiperiodic crystals... should be shamed and lose their jobs for attacking people who stand up for new truths?

Wow :(

I'll say it again, those chemists who attacked Daniel Shechtman should be named, shamed, and lose their jobs.

[9hello123]

@noobenstein No one removed your comment.

And there's a different between being skeptical and being a liar and attacking people.

It's absolutely insane to say "Oh, this is a very unexpected result, we should just accept it without making sure to verify it! Someone's claimed it, it's obviously definitely true, no one ever lies and no one ever makes mistakes!"

[noobenstein]

"There's no such thing as quasicrystals, only quasiscientists".

Imagine you spend years working on something hard, putting so much passion into it. Risking years of your career on something which you believe in, but if turns out to be false leaves you with no reward.

And you know its important. And you share it with people who you know it will HELP THEM.

And... oh thanks! Instead of getting rewarded, you get attacked. And called a "quasiscientist". Basically a liar and a madman.

[noobenstein]

@9hello123

It's happened to me thats why I'm so angry about this. I really hate those people who lied about me.

[thepat30]

Another great video!.... but where can I buy those Nobel chocolates?

[NibTV1]

Moriarty? Then who's sherlock holmes?

[chickenguy999]

I have to buy a notebook!

[Quintinohthree]

And to celebrate, they'll eat some crystals, which may also turn out to be quasi-crystals, but may also not.

[Ihasmoarface]

This is great GREAT news!

[Ihasmoarface]

This is great GREAT news!

[MrMichaelEdie]

This is my favorite Nobel Prize rationale since metallic polymers! Awesome stuff.

[Nackenkamm]

I like Brady's squeeky asking voice

[NilsMcCloud]

"That's physics. Sorry but it's physics."

It's politics, more like. Physicists probably did too well this year compared to chemists.

[managarm1349]

very interesting video + my favorite dr..sry prof moriarty :))

[paintballer9110]

what is the physicist's name? He's my favourite sixtysymbols physicist :)

[periodicvideos]

@paintballer9110 Professor Phil Moriarty

[sun6021023]

@periodicvideos Moriarty like in Sherlock Holmes? Awesome.

[bboy310]

Can you please make a video is regards to the CERN sub atomic particle, that was clocked going faster than the speed of light?

[lepthymo]

@bboy310 sixty symbols actually did do a video on that; /watch?v=qJ0m13iJw0k

[DeoMachina]

@bboy310 They already made one, check Sixtysymbols

[UrkTheKeg]

@bboy310 They put up a video about that on their sixty symbols channel -> /watch?v=qJ0m13iJw0k

[20051470]

@bboy310 It has already been done. Search de sixtysymbols channel ;)

[noobenstein]

Wheres my comment?

[noobenstein]

The people who criticised him should be shamed and lose their jobs.

Attacking people for bringing new truths into science and the world is the worst thing people can do. These liars are worthless monsters.

[noobenstein]

The people who criticised him should be shamed and lose their jobs.

Attacking people for bringing new truths into science and the world is the worst thing people can do. These liars are worthless monsters.

[19Tranc3r92]

Professor forgot to mention he's going the Nobel Hair.

[BlueBajs]

Does the professor speak swedish?

[AlainG80]

Seems like it has an overlap with physical math (Escher, Penrose) as well.

[roadran422]

Well what was the mistake -_-

[periodicvideos]

@roadran422 I mistyped the year first time around...

[rahulpower]

first....well second

[rahulpower]

first....well scond

[lepthymo]

second..?

[rahulpower]

@lepthymo damm you sir!

[lepthymo]

@rahulpower ^_^

[periodicvideos]

Sorry for re-upload (again)... had to fix my typo...

This video has been the death of me today, so I hope some of you like it! :)

Brady

[defaultuser88]

@periodicvideos fantastic video!

[enisylo]

@periodicvideos Chances are we will, Brady.

[bamboo4tameshigiri]

@periodicvideos We all make mistakes.

[periodicvideos]

@bamboo4tameshigiri yes, I have made a couple today.... think a lack of sleep is catching up with me!

[bamboo4tameshigiri]

@periodicvideos Lack of sleep has led to many of my mistakes. I'm an insomniac, I even take meds for it. I won't even drink coffee because I never need it.

[bamboo4tameshigiri]

@periodicvideos Lack of sleep has led to many of my mistakes. I'm an insomniac, I even take meds for it. I won't even drink coffee because I never need it. After ~3 days without sleep things get quite strange and personal injury becomes quite easy; neurodegeneration also begins to set in. Get some rest!

[QwoPhasaArius]

@periodicvideos Thanks again :]

[lepthymo]

@periodicvideos as expected it was very enjoyable and informative ;)

[KingsBlend1]

Brady, you did a fine job as always my man, don't worry about it and keep 'em rolling good sir!

[KingsBlend1]

5:41 background... time to wash a coffee cup or two? Where's that intern.....

[pbezunartea]

@periodicvideos Thank you! great video!

[clearmenser]

@periodicvideos You can do no wrong sir. We forgive you.

[spokehedz]

@periodicvideos willingness to correct your mistakes, and admit them in a public forum? That's a thumbs up for sure!