Dan Shechtman

Dan Shechtman is an Israeli chemist and materials scientist, born in 1941, who discovered quasicrystals on April 8, 1982, while working at the United States National Bureau of Standards, an ordered crystalline structure lacking translational repetition that fundamentally challenged conventional understanding of matter, and faced significant early opposition, including from Nobel laureate Linus Pauling, before being vindicated. He is the Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, has also been a professor at Iowa State University associated with the Ames National Laboratory, and earlier worked at Johns Hopkins University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2011 for the discovery of quasicrystals and the Israel Prize in Physics in 1998. He received the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1999. He is also live on this family own technology atlas as an engineer, a legitimate width mint of the same historically significant figure rather than a duplication.