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Class cancelled due to professor's presidential bid
Dan Shechtman. / scienceblogs
By Lee Kyung-min
Class cancellation happens for various reasons, but its occurrence for the possibility of a professor becoming president of a country is a rare one.
Dan Shechtman, a professor of materials science at Technion, an Israel Institute of Technology, who is also a Nobel laureate, would be too busy to teach this year.
On Jan. 17, he announced that he will run for the President of the State of Israel.
He was scheduled to teach applied physics at Seoul National University (SNU) this semester, but the course has been cancelled and there won’t be any replacement classes, either, according to school sources.
He was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "the discovery of quasicrystals."