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Dan Shechtman
Dan Shechtman (Hebrew: דן שכטמן) (born in 1941 in Tel Aviv) 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 Laboratory, and Professor of Materials Science at Iowa State University. In 1982, he discovered the icosahedral phase, which opened the new field of quasiperiodic crystals. He was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "the discovery of quasicrystals".[1]
Awards
In 1998, Shechtman was awarded the Israel Prize, for physics.[1]
In 1999, he received the Wolf Prize in Physics.[2]
Further reading
D. P. DiVincenzo and P. J. Steinhardt, eds. 1991. Quasicrystals: The State of the Art. Directions in Condensed Matter Physics, Vol 11. ISBN 981-02-0522-8.
References
^ "Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1998 (in Hebrew)".
^ Wolf Prize Recipients in Physics
External links
Biography/CV Page
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