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Dan Shechtman
Dan Shechtman 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 U.S. National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., Shechtman discovered the icosah…
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science · Israeli Nobel laureate in chemistry · physicist · chemist · engineer · pedagogue · university teacher · crystallographer · materials scientist · also Dan Shechtman, Shechtman
Born 24 January 1941 · Q44111
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I was a subject of ridicule and lectures about the basics of crystallography. The leader of the opposition to my findings was the two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, the idol of the American Chemical Society and one of the most famous scientists in the world. For years,
2026· 3 entries
“I was a subject of ridicule and lectures about the basics of crystallography. The leader of the opposition to my findings was the two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, the idol of the American Chemical Society and one of the most famous scientists in the world. For years,”
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“go back and read the textbook”
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2025· 1 entry
Nasdaq: NeuroNOS Appoints Nobel Laureate Dan Shechtman to Scientific Advisory Board to Advance Treatments for Autism and Alzheimer’s
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2024· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (2024).
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2022· 1 entry
EurekAlert!: Dan Shechtman, Iowa State University (IMAGE)
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2018· 2 entries
“Philosophy Has Made Plenty of Progress”
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Published “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Features as a Perceptual Metric” in 2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition — cited 12,541 times.
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2017· 3 entries
Jewish Journal: Episode 37 – Nobel Prize Laureate Prof. Dan Shechtman and the discovery that changed his life
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news.iastate.edu: Nobel Laureate Dan Shechtman to link entrepreneurship, world peace in public lecture
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“Can we compare different cultural forms of life?”
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the Aix-Marseille University (2015).
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2014· 1 entry
In an interview with Israel's Channel One, Shechtman announced his candidacy for President of Israel
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2012· 2 entries
Won Silver Medal of the President of the Senate (2012).
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“What is uncontroversial about Kuhn?”
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2011· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for the discovery of quasicrystals.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2011).
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2010· 2 entries
“Thomas Kuhn: the man who changed the way the world looked at science”
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“The ten books that influenced me”
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded Clarivate Citation Laureates (2008).
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture (2002).
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded Gregori Aminoff Prize (2000).
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Wolf Prize in Physics (1999).
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Israel Prize (1998).
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1995· 2 entries
“The Methods of Science ... and Those by Which We Live”
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“Night Thoughts of a Quantum Physicist”
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1988· 1 entry
International Award for New Materials of the American Physical Society
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials (1987).
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1984· 1 entry
To the day Linus Pauling died in 1994, Shechtman experienced hostility from Pauling toward the non-periodic interpretation
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1982· 1 entry
“What Are Scientific Revolutions?”
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1975· 1 entry
Joined the department of materials engineering at Technion
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1968· 1 entry
Shechtman was an NRC fellow at the Aerospace Research Laboratories at Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio, where he studied for three years the microstructure and physical metallurgy of titanium aluminides
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1941· 2 entries
Born 1941-01-24.
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In Tel Aviv, in what was then Mandatory Palestine; the city became part of the new state of Israel in 1948
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