Dan Shechtman
Israeli Nobel laureate in chemistry / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dan Shechtman (Hebrew: דן שכטמן; born January 24, 1941)[1] is the Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, an Associate of the US Department of Energy's Ames National Laboratory, and Professor of Materials Science at Iowa State University. On April 8, 1982, while on sabbatical at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., Shechtman discovered the icosahedral phase, which opened the new field of quasiperiodic crystals.[2]
Dan Shechtman דן שכטמן | |
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Born | (1941-01-24) January 24, 1941 (age 83) |
Education | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology |
Alma mater | Technion |
Known for | Quasicrystals |
Spouse | Tzipora Shechtman |
Awards | Weizmann Prize(1993) Israel Prize (1998) Wolf Prize in Physics (1999) Gregori Aminoff Prize (2000) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2011) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Materials science |
Institutions | Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Johns Hopkins University National Institute of Standards and Technology Iowa State University Technion Tohoku University |
He was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of quasicrystals, making him one of six Israelis who have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[3][4]