Dan Shechtman#
| Membership Number: | 4200 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ISRAEL |
Present and Previous Positions
- Distinguished Prof. Emeritus
- 2004 Iowa State University - Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
- 1992 - 1994 Sabbatical at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- 1981 – 1983 Sabbatical at Johns Hopkins University
- 1975 - present Technion - Israel Institute of Technology - Distinguished Professor
- 1972 - 1975 The Wright Patterson Air Force Base (USA) - Postdoctoral Fellowship supported by National Research Council
Fields of Scholarship
- Advanced characterization methods
- Physical chemistry
- Quasicrystals
- Microstructural design and processing
- Structural chemistry
Honours and Awards
- 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 2008 European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) 25th Anniversary Award
- 2005 Elected Honorary Member of the Japan Institute of Metals
- 2002 EMET Prize in Chemistry
- 2000 Elected Honorary Member of the French Physical Society
- 2000 Muriel & David Jacknow Technion Award for Excellence in Teaching
- 2000 Elected member of the American National Academy of Engineering.
- 2000 Gregori Aminoff Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
- 1999 Wolf Prize in Physics
- 1998 Elected Honorary Member of ISIS-Symmetry (International Society for Interdisciplinary sciences)
- 1998 Israel Prize in Physics
- 1996 Elected member of the Israel Academy of Sciences
- 1993 Weizmann Science Award
- 1990 Rothschild Prize in Engineering
- 1988 New England Academic Award of the Technion
- 1988 International Award for New Materials of the American Physical Society
- 1986 Physics Award of the Friedenberg Fund for the Advancement of Science and Education
