Dan Shechtman
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About
Israeli scientist who received the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of quasicrystals, a structure that is ordered but not periodic. In January of 2014 he announced his candidacy for President of Israel.
Before Fame
He obtained his Ph.D. in materials engineering from the Technion in 1972.
Trivia
He won the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1999 and was awarded the 2000 Gregori Aminoff Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Family Life
He has four children with his wife Prof. Tzipora Shechtman.
Associated With
He was heavily criticized by Linus Pauling because of his non-periodic interpretation of his research.
