Shechtman, Dan

Dan Shehtman was born in Tel Aviv in 1941. His father, a recent repatriate Yitzhak Shekhtman, worked as a printer in a print shop. ^[2] Mother, Netanya Ashur, came from a family of first settlers who left Ukraine in 1906 . ^[3] Maternal grandfather, (Wolf Zeylikovich Poberezhkin; 1882 , Bila Tserkva - 1956 , Tel Aviv), from a family of Sadghor Hasidim , was an activist of the Jewish Social Democratic Labor Party Poalei Zion , editor of a party newspaper on Yiddish Der Onfang (since 1908), founder of the first Hebrew socialist magazine ( Unity , with Yitzhak Ben-Zvi and his wife Rachel Yanait, 1910). ^{[4] [5] [6]} At the Bezalel Academy of Arts, he met his future wife, student of Boris Shatz , artist Shoshana Kotlyar. ^[7] Shekhtman's parents divorced when he was a teenager.

Grew up in Bat Yam and Petah Tikva . In 1966, he received a bachelor's degree at the Technion , in 1968 a master's degree, and in 1972 a PhD . After receiving a PhD degree, Schechtman studied the properties of titanium aluminides for three years in the laboratory at in Ohio , USA . In 1975, he got a job at the Faculty of Materials Science at Technion. In 1981-1983, Shekhtman was on sabbatical ( English Sabbatical ) at Johns Hopkins University , where he, together with the NIST Institute, was engaged in the study of rapidly cooled transition metal alloys of aluminum. The result of these studies was the discovery of the icosahedral phase and the subsequent discovery of quasiperiodic crystals . In 1992-1994, Shekhtman was on leave in NIST, where he studied the influence of defective structures of crystals grown by chemical vapor deposition on their growth and properties. In 2004, Schechtman joined at the University of Iowa , where he now spends four to five months a year ^{[8] [9]} .

In 1996, Shekhtman was elected a member of the Israeli Academy of Sciences , in 2000 - a member of the , and in 2004 - a member of the .

Since 2014, he heads the International Scientific Council of the Tomsk Polytechnic University ^{[10] [11]} .

• 1986 - Friedenberg Foundation Prize in Physics
• 1987 - James McGrude Prize for Research in New Materials
• 1990 -
• 1993 -
• 1998 - Israeli State Prize in Physics
• 1999 - Wolf Prize in Physics
• 2000 -
• 2000 -
• 2008 - Prize of the European Society of Materials Science
• 2011 - Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 2016 - Foreign Member of the RAS ^[12]

Professor Schechtman at leisure engaged in the manufacture of jewelry.

In 2016, he signed an open letter from Nobel laureates calling on Greenpeace , the United Nations, and governments around the world to stop fighting genetically modified organisms ( GMOs ) ^{[13] [14] [15]} .

• D. Shechtman, I. Blech, D. Gratias, JW Cahn. Metallic Phase with Long-Range Orientational Order and No Translational Symmetry // Physical Review Letters . - 1984. - Vol. 53 .-- P. 1951-1953. - an article containing a report on the discovery of quasicrystals
• D. Shechtman: Twin Determined Growth of Diamond Wafers , Materials Science and Engineering A184 (1994) 113
• D. Shechtman, D. van Heerden, D. Josell: fcc Titanium in Ti-Al Multilayers , Materials Letters 20 (1994) 329
• D. van Heerden, E. Zolotoyabko, D. Shechtman: Microstructural and Structural Characterization of Electrodeposited Cu / Ni multilayers , Materials Letters (1994)
• I. Goldfarb, E. Zolotoyabko, A. Berner, D. Shechtman: Novel Specimen Preparation Technique for the Study of Multi Component Phase Diagrams , Materials Letters 21 (1994), 149-154
• D. Josell, D. Shechtman, D. van Heerden: fcc Titanium in Ti / Ni Multilayers , Materials Letters 22 (1995), 275–279

• Dan Shekhtman . Faculty of Materials, Technion. Date of treatment October 5, 2011. Archived on May 6, 2006.
• R. Van Noorden. Persistence pays off for crystal chemist // Nature . - 2011. - Vol. 478. - P. 165-166.
• Z. Gelman. Quasicrystals and quasi-formation (Interview with D. Shekhtman) // Chemistry and life . - 2011. - No. 12 .