Dan Shechtman
Dan Shechtman
Dan Shechtman 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 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. Shechtman was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth24 January 1941
CountryIsrael
In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.
I can unite the people of Israel, so I won't speak about controversial issues, which divide the people.
I'm proud of my family, very proud - I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife.
In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.
I know there is a stereotype that I am naive, but I know what I want, and I know what I'm doing to get there.
The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.
Colleges will try to get the good students. That's the way to go. When I chaired my department of Materials Engineering at the Technion in 1990, we started a program for which we set the bar very high. It was the highest at the Technion, above electrical engineering and medicine.
I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'