Dan
Shechtman (Ibrani: דן שכטמן) (lahir di Tel Aviv, Israel, 24 Januari 1941)[1]
adalah Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science di Institut Teknologi
Technion - Israel, Rekanan Ames Laboratory milik Departemen Energi AS, dan
Profesor Ilmu Material di Iowa State University. Pada 8 April 1982, ketika
sedang
beristirahat di U.S. National Bureau of Standards di Washington, D.C.,
Shechtman menemukan fase ikosahedral, yang membuka bidang baru dalam kristal
kuasiperiodik.[2] Ia memenangkan Hadiah Nobel Kimia 2011 atas "penemuan kuasikristal".[3]
Biografi
Dan
Shechtman lahir di Tel Aviv, Palestina Mandat. Ia menikah dengan Prof. Tzipora
Shechtman, Kepala Departemen Konseling dan Pembangunan Manusia di Universitas
Haifa, dan penulis dua buku mengenai psikoterapi.[4][5] Mereka dikaruniai seorang
putra bernama Yoav Shechtman (mahasiswa PhD fisika) dan tiga putri: Tamar
Finkelstein (psikolog organisasi di pusat kepemimpinan polisi Israel), Ella
Shechtman-Cory (PhD dalam bidang psikologi klinis), dan Ruth Dougoud-Nevo (PhD
dalam bidang psikologi klinis).[6][7]
Penghargaan
2011
Hadiah Nobel Kimia atas penemuan kuasikristal
2008
European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) 25th Anniversary Award
2002
EMET Prize in Chemistry
2000
Muriel & David Jacknow Technion Award for Excellence in Teaching
2000
Gregori Aminoff Prize dari Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
1999
Penghargaan Wolf dalam bidang Fisika.[8]
1998
Penghargaan Israel dalam bidang Fisika.[9]
1993
Weizmann Science Award[rujukan?]
1990
Rothschild Prize in Engineering[rujukan?]
1988
New England Academic Award of the Technion[rujukan?]
1988
International Award for New Materials[rujukan?] dari American Physical Society
1986
Physics Award of the Friedenberg Fund for the Advancement of Science and
Education[rujukan?]
Karya
ilmiah
"Metallic
Phase with Long-Range Orientational Order and No Translational Symmetry".
Physical Review Letters 53 (20): 1951. 3 Desember 1984.
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.53.1951. Bibcode: 1984PhRvL..53.1951S.
"Nuclear
γ-ray resonance observations in an aluminum-based icosahedral
quasicrystal". Physical Review B 32 (2): 1383. 3 Desember 1985.
doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.32.1383. Bibcode: 1985PhRvB..32.1383S.
Catatan
kaki
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Dan Shechtman – Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
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"Israeli Wins Chemistry Nobel For Quasicrystals". npr.org. Diakses
pada 5 Oktober 2011.
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Iowa State, Ames Laboratory, Technion Scientist Wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Professor Zipora Shechtman
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He deserves it, wife of 2011 Nobel Chemistry laureate says
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Shechtman Wins Chemistry Nobel for Crystal Find
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Genealogy of the Shechtman family
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"Wolf Prize Recipients in Physics". Wolffund.org.il. Diakses pada 5
Oktober 2011.
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"Israel Prize Official Site – Recipients in 1998 (in Hebrew)".
Bacaan
lanjutan
D.
P. DiVincenzo and P. J. Steinhardt, eds. 1991. Quasicrystals: The State of the
Art. Directions in Condensed Matter Physics, Vol 11. ISBN 981-02-0522-8.
Pranala luar
Biography and Bibliographic Resources,
from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, United States
Department of Energy
Story of quasicrystals as told by
Shechtman to APS News in 2002.
Biography/CV Page – Technion
TechnionLIVE e-newsletter
Dan Shechtman (Iowa State faculty page)