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Dan Shechtman

Dan Shechtman (Hebrew: דן שכטמן; born January 24, 1941) is an Israeli chemist, 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…

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Known for
Quasicrystals
Alma mater
Technion
Education
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Born
(1941-01-24) January 24, 1941 (age 85) Tel Aviv, Israel
Children
Yoav Shechtman
Fields
Materials science

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