The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011
Awarded on: 2011-10-05
"for the discovery of quasicrystals"
Affiliations:
- Technion - Israel Institute of Technology – Haifa, Israel
Dan Shechtman
Born: 1941-01-24 in Tel Aviv, British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel)
Gender: male
Field: Israeli Nobel laureate in chemistry
Biography
Dan Shechtman 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."