Dan Shechtman
Dan Shechtman (Ebreu: דן שכטמן; born Januar 24, 1941 in Tel Aviv)[1] is the Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science at the Technion – Israel Institute o Technology, an Associate o the US Depairtment o Energy's Ames Laboratory, an Professor o Materials Science at Iowa State Varsity. On Aprile 8, 1982, while on sabbatical at the U.S. Naitional Bureau o Staundarts in Washington, D.C., Shechtman discovered the icosahedral phase, which opened the new field o quasiperiodic crystals.[2] He wis awairdit the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "the discovery o quasicrystals".[3] Shechtman is the fowert Israeli tae win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in unner a decade.[4]
 Dan Shechtman דן שכטמן | |
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 Distinguished Prof. Dan Shechtman, 2011 Nobel Laureate, at Stockholm Varsity in 2011. | |
| Born | 24 Januar 1941 Tel Aviv, Breetish Mandate o Palestine |
| Residence | Israel |
| Citizenship | Israel |
| Alma mater | Technion - Israel Institute o Technology |
| Kent for | Quasicrystals |
| Hauf-marrae(s) | Tzipora Shechtman |
| Awairds | Israel Prize (1998) Wolf Prize in Physics (1999) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2011) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Materials Science |
| Institutions | Wright Patterson Air Force Base Johns Hopkins Varsity NIST Iowa State Varsity Technion - Israel Institute o Technology |
References
eedit- ↑ Dan Shechtman Archived 2011-11-10 at the Wayback Machine. (PDF) . Retrieved on 2012-01-28.
- ↑ "Israeli Wins Chemistry Nobel For Quasicrystals". npr.org. Archived frae the original on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
- ↑ Iowa State, Ames Laboratory, Technion Scientist Wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Newswise.com (2011-10-05). Retrieved on 2012-01-28.
- ↑ Israel’s Shechtman vindicated with Nobel for chemistry AFP (in Al Arabiya News) Thursday, 06 October 2011