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Dan Shechtman

1941 - Today

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Dan Shechtman (Hebrew: דן שכטמן; born January 24, 1941) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dan Shechtman has received more than 453,210 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Dan Shechtman is the 126th most popular chemist (up from 128th in 2019), the 96th most popular biography from Israel (up from 98th in 2019) and the most popular Israeli Chemist.

Dan Shechtman is most famous for his discovery of a new form of crystal called quasicrystals. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2011 for this discovery.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Dan Shechtman ranks 126 out of 602. Before him are Manfred Eigen, Robert Burns Woodward, Georg Wittig, Avram Hershko, Johan Gadolin, and Clara Immerwahr. After him are Jean-Marie Lehn, Ignacy Mościcki, Raymond Davis Jr., Wendell Meredith Stanley, Lars Onsager, and Ronald George Wreyford Norrish.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Dan Shechtman ranks 56. Before him are Hage Geingob, Riccardo Muti, Ivan Gašparovič, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, Pete Best, and Jordi Savall. After him are Mircea Snegur, Gérson, Viktor Zubkov, Claudine Auger, Jacques Perrin, and Ray Tomlinson.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Dan Shechtman ranks 96 out of 466. Before him are Abu Nidal (1937), Pope Theodore I (600), Cyril of Jerusalem (313), Isaac Luria (1534), Pontius Pilate's wife (6), and Ahaziah of Judah (-900). After him are Antigonus II Mattathias (-100), Epiphanius of Salamis (315), Tzipi Livni (1958), Aaron Ciechanover (1947), Uri Geller (1946), and Berenice (28).

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Among CHEMISTS In Israel

Among chemists born in Israel, Dan Shechtman ranks 1. After him are Arieh Warshel (1940).

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