Biography & contributions
Dan Shechtman is born on January 24, 1941
Shechtman is the Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science at the Technion
Shechtman discovered the icosahedral phase, which opened the new field of quasiperiodic crystals.
In 1981-1983 Shechtman studied rapidly solidified aluminum transition metal alloys
In 1992-1994 He studied the effect of the defect structure of CVD diamond on its growth and properties
Awards & Prizes
In 1988 International Award for New Materials
In 1988 New England Academic Award
In 1993 Weizmann Science Award
In 1998 Israel Prize
In 1999 Wolf Prize in Physics
In 2000 Gregori Aminoff Prize
In 2000 Muriel & David Jacknow Technion Award
In 2002 EMET Prize
In 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of quasicrystals
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