Danny Shechtman, an Iowa State engineering professor and a research scientist will speak at the university's memorial union great hall at noon Wednesday.
His lecture will focus on ideas about building up developing countries by motivating new generations of students in technological entrepreneurship. He says one way to speed up the process is motivating today's engineers and scientists in developing countries to establish startups and eventually mentor the next generation of entrepreneurs.
Shechtman won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of quasicrystals, crystalline materials whose atoms don't line up like other crystals. The discovery changed ideas about matter and its atomic arrangement.
