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Dan Shechtman

Dan Shechtman is the Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. In 1982, he discovered the icosahedral phase, which opened the new field of quasiperiodic crystals.

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Resources

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.

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Wolf Prize in Physics Laureates

Chien-Shiung Wu (1978) • George Uhlenbeck / Giuseppe Occhialini (1979) • Michael Fisher / Leo Kadanoff / Kenneth G. Wilson (1980) • Freeman Dyson / Gerardus 't Hooft / Victor Weisskopf (1981) • Leon M. Lederman / Martin Lewis Perl (1982) • Erwin Hahn / Peter Hirsch / Theodore Maiman (1983) • Conyers Herring / Philippe Nozieres (1984) • Mitchell Feigenbaum / Albert J. Libchaber (1986) • Herbert Friedman / Bruno Rossi / Riccardo Giacconi (1987) • Roger Penrose / Stephen Hawking (1988) • Pierre-Gilles de Gennes / David J. Thouless (1990) • Maurice Goldhaber / Valentine Telegdi (1991) • Joseph H. Taylor, Jr. (1992) • Benoît Mandelbrot (1993) • Vitaly Ginzburg / Yoichiro Nambu (1994) • John Wheeler (1997) • Yakir Aharonov / Michael Berry (1998) • Dan Shechtman (1999) • Raymond Davis, Jr. / Masatoshi Koshiba (2000) • Bertrand Halperin / Anthony Leggett (2002) • Robert Brout / François Englert / Peter Higgs (2004) • Daniel Kleppner (2005) • Albert Fert / Peter Grünberg (2006)