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Jan 24, 1941 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel 83 years old
Israeli scientist
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About Dan Shechtman
- Dan Shechtman (Hebrew: ?? ?????; born January 24, 1941) 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.
- 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.
- 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.
