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Dan Shechtman is an Israeli scientist who made groundbreaking discoveries about the structure of matter. His work is important because it challenged existing scientific understanding and earned him recognition for advancing our knowledge of how atoms arrange themselves in materials.
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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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1941 birthsAcademic staff of Technion – Israel Institute of TechnologyCandidates for President of IsraelCrystallographersEMET Prize recipients in the Exact SciencesForeign members of the Russian Academy of SciencesIowa State University facultyIsraeli atheistsIsraeli chemistsIsraeli JewsIsraeli materials scientistsIsraeli Nobel laureates