Weizmann Institute of Science.

Reshef Tenne, of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, has been awarded the MRS Metal for 2005 from the Materials Research Society (MRS). The MRS Medal award "recognizes a specific outstanding recent discovery or advancement that is expected to have a major impact on the progress of any materials-related field." Dr. Tenne was given the award for realizing that nanoclusters of layered compound materials (e.g., Mo[S.sub.2], W[S.sub.2]) can be made to fold into hollow cage structures, known as inorganic fullerenes, in analogy to graphitic carbon.