Dan Shechtman
Israeli scientist · Israel · Scientists · Born 1941 · age 85
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Something wrong?Dan Shechtman 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. S.
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Meeting at NIST in 1985 where Shechtman (left) explains the atomic structure of quasicrystals![Shechtman's Nobel Prize-winning work was in the area of quasicrystals, ordered crystalline materials lacking repeating structures, such as this Al-Pd-Mn alloy.[12]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Quasicrystal1.jpg/330px-Quasicrystal1.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
Shechtman's Nobel Prize-winning work was in the area of quasicrystals, ordered crystalline materials lacking repeating structures, such as this Al-Pd-Mn alloy.[12]
Shechtman and President Reuven Rivlin, present the Wolf Prize award in 2018. Behind them is an Israeli basalt ash relief.
Shechtman in Stockholm, June 2016Awards
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Dan Shechtman 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." For this discovery, he was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, making him one of six Israelis who have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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Leo EsakiBoth received James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials
Masatoshi KoshibaBoth received Wolf Prize in Physics
Albert FertBoth received Wolf Prize in Physics
Omar M. YaghiBoth received Gregori Aminoff Prize
Benoit MandelbrotBoth received Wolf Prize in Physics
Georg BednorzBoth received James C. McGroddy Prize for New MaterialsFame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.