Dan Shechtman

Dan Shechtman
דן שכטמן‎
Dan Shechtman, Nobel Prize 2011 press conference.
Born (1941-01-24) January 24, 1941
Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine
EducationTechnion – Israel Institute of Technology
Alma materTechnion
Known forQuasicrystals
SpouseTzipora Shechtman
ChildrenYoav Shechtman
AwardsRothschild Prize (1990)
Weizmann Prize (1993)
Israel Prize (1998)
Wolf Prize in Physics (1999)
Gregori Aminoff Prize (2000)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2011)
Scientific career
FieldsMaterials science
InstitutionsWright-Patterson Air Force Base
Johns Hopkins University
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Iowa State University
Technion
Tohoku University

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, also referred to as "quasicrystals."[2]

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]

  1. ^ Dan Shechtman Archived November 10, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. (PDF). Retrieved on January 28, 2012.
  2. ^ "Israeli Wins Chemistry Nobel For Quasicrystals". npr.org. Retrieved October 5, 2011.
  3. ^ Iowa State, Ames Laboratory, Technion Scientist Wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Newswise.com (October 5, 2011). Retrieved on January 28, 2012.
  4. ^ Multiple sources:
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