Dan Shechtman

Dan Shechtman (Hebrew: דן שכטמן; born January 24, 1941)^[1] is an Israeli chemist. He is the Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

Dan Shechtman דן שכטמן
Dan Shechtman, Nobel Prize 2011 press conference.
Born	(1941-01-24) 24 January 1941 (age 84) Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine (now Israel)
Alma mater	Technion
Known for	Quasicrystals
Spouse	Tzipora Shechtman
Awards	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

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]

Shechtman 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][5][6]

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 2016.^[7]