Dan Shechtman - Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 2011
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Dan Shechtman

Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 2011
for the discovery of quasicrystals
Citizenship
Israel Israel United States United States
Languages
English, Hebrew
date of birth
1/24/1941
place of birth
Tel Aviv
Age
85 years
member of
  • Academia Europaea
    • start time: 2016
  • European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • National Academy of Engineering
  • Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
employer
  • University of Iowa
  • Iowa State University
  • Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
field of work
  • crystallography
  • extractive metallurgy
educated at
  • Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
work location
  • Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
occupation
  • engineer
  • physicist
  • chemist
  • pedagogue
  • university teacher
  • crystallographer
  • materials scientist
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