` There are a few things that you know in life , like 'The Berlin Wall is not going to fall . ' Peter Mueller discovery was like the fall of the Alhambra Palace , a scientist says . Shechtman `` tore apart what we thought we knew , '' Peter Mueller of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology says . Western tile patterns hundreds of years old help explain the discovery . The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is worth 10 million Swedish kronor .
Peter Mueller discovery was like the fall of the Alhambra Palace , a scientist says . Shechtman `` tore apart what we thought we knew , '' Peter Mueller of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology says . Western tile patterns hundreds of years old help explain the discovery . The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is worth 10 million Swedish kronor .