Dan Shechtman
In 2008 Dan Shechtman was named a Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate in Chemistry (with Sir Roger Penrose) for their related discoveries of, respectively, Penrose—tilings and Shechtman—quasicrystals. Below are more details.
- Dan Shechtman won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2011.
- Role: Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel; and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA USA