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Dan Shechtman

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Dan Shechtman

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Israeli scientist

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Dan Shechtman is an Israeli and American physicist, chemist, engineer, and pedagogue. Born in Tel Aviv on January 24, 1941, he holds citizenship in both Israel and the United States. His professional work focuses on crystallography and extractive metallurgy. He was educated at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where he has also worked. Additionally, he has been employed by Iowa State University and the University of Iowa.

Shechtman has received several major awards, including the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Israel Prize, the Wolf Prize in Physics, and the Gregori Aminoff Prize. He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Academia Europaea. His published works include *Yozmot taʻaśiyatiyot be-Yiśraʾel* and *Supersaturated aluminium alloy powders*. He also ran as a candidate in the 2014 Israeli presidential election.

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Person · Open Library

Works
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  • Yozmot taʻaśiyatiyot be-Yiśraʾel
  • Supersaturated aluminium alloy powders

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1939
Active to
2002-12-04

Discography

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

    · 2010 · cited 30,946x

  2. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    · 2019 · cited 20,871x

  3. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,786x

  4. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Features as a Perceptual Metric

    · 2018 · cited 12,389x

  5. Commentary: The Materials Project: A materials genome approach to accelerating materials innovation

    · 2013 · cited 12,233x

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry2011

    “for the discovery of quasicrystals”

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Encyclopedic overview

Dan Shechtman (Hebrew: דן שכטמן; 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 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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