Dan Shechtman

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                  Today, I am going to speak about a person that is very important in the world, this person is called Daniel  Shechtman. I choose this person because i like this type of person, this person is very nice and i am very interest about Chemistry and this person's name is Daniel  Shechtman won the Nobel price in Chemistry.



                  Dan Shechtman was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "the discovery of quasicrystals," making him one of six Israelis who have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.Dan Shechtman was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. He is married to Prof. Tzipora Shechtman, Head of the Department of Counseling and Human Development at Haifa University, and author of two books on psychotherapy.



                 This person have a very interesting academic career: After receiving his Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from the Technion in 1972, where he also obtained his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering in 1966 and M.Sc. in Materials Engineering in 1968,^[1] Prof. 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 titaniumaluminides. In 1975 he joined the department of materials engineering at Technion. In 1981–1983 he was on Sabbatical at Johns Hopkins University, where he studied rapidly solidified aluminum transition metal alloys, in a joint program with NBS. During this study he discovered theIcosahedral Phase which opened the new field of quasiperiodic crystals.

In 1992–1994 he was on sabbatical at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where he studied the effect of the defect structure of CVD diamond on its growth and properties. Shechtman's Technion research is conducted in the Louis Edelstein Center, and in the Wolfson Centre which is headed by him. He served on several Technion Senate Committees and headed one of them.

Shechtman joined the Iowa State faculty in 2004. He currently spends about five months a year in Ames on a part-time appointment.

Since 2014 he has been the head of the International Scientific Council of Tomsk Polytechnic University.

               Apart from the Nobel price in Chemistry that he won, he also won a lot of prices like, Weizmann Science Award in 1993,Rothschild Prize in Engineering in 1990,New England Academic Award of the Technion in 1998,Physics Award of the Friedenberg Fund for the Advancement of Science and Education in 1986... and a lot of others prices that he won.

             As a  conclusion, this is a person very important in the history of the world because of his achievement about chemistry and a lot of important things.

                                                           This is Daniel Shechtman.