Dan Shechtman
Senior Chemist, Materials Chemistry & Biomolecular Materials, Ames Laboratory
Professor, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, Iowa State University

342 Spedding Hall

Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
phone 515.294.3685, fax 515.294.4709, email: dans@ameslab.gov

Education

Ph.D. Materials Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
 

M.Sc. Materials Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

 

B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

 

Professional Appointments

Visiting Professor at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

2006-present

Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Iowa State University.

2004-present

Distinguished Professor of the Technion.

1998-present

Professor, Department of Materials Engineering, Technion, Haifa.

1986-1998

Visiting Professor, UMBC, Baltimore, Maryland.

1997-2004

Visiting Professor, Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

1989-1997

Associate Professor, Department of Materials Engineering, Haifa, Israel.

1984-1986

Visiting Professor, Department of Materials Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

1981-1989

Senior Lecturer, Department of Materials Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel.

1977-1984

Lecturer, Department of Materials Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel.

1975-1977

National Research Council, Post Doctoral Research Associate, Aerospace Research Laboratories, Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio

1972-1975

Honors, Awards and Professional Activities

Elected Honorary Member of JIM (Japan Institute of Metals).

2006

Elected Member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts

2004

The EMETH Science Prize

2002

Honorary Doctorate, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

2002

Elected Honorary member of the French Physical Society

2000

The Muriel & David Jacknow Technion Award for Excellence in Teaching

2000

Elected member of the American National Academy of Engineering.

2000

The Aminoff Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

2000

The Wolf Prize in Physics.

1999

Elected Honorary Member of ISIS-Symmetry.

1998

Appointed a Distinguished Professor of the Technion.

1998

The Israel Prize in Physics.

1998

Elected Honorary Member of IMRS (Indian Materials Research Society).

1997

Elected member of the Israel Academy of Sciences.

1996

The Weizmann Science Award.

1993

The Rothschild Prize in Engineering.

1990

The Philip Tobias Chair.

1989

The New England Academic Award of the Technion.

1988

The International Award for New Materials of the American Physical Society.

1987

The Physics Award of the Friedenberg Fund for the Advancement of Science and Education.

1986

Selected Publications

R.J. Schaefer, L. Bendersky, F.S. Biancaniello, W.J. Boettinger and D., Shechtman, "Icosahedral and Decagonal Phase Formation in Al-Mn Alloys", Met. Trans. 17A, 2117- 2125 (1986).

J.W. Cahn, D. Gratias and D. Shechtman, "Response to Pauling", Nature 319 (1986), 102.

D. Shechtman, "Quasiperiodic Crystals - Experimental Evidence". Journal de Physique - July 1986, p.1.

D. Shechtman, "The Icosahedral Quasiperiodic Phase," Physica Scripta, T23, (1988) 49- 53.

D. Shechtman and C.I. Lang, "Quasi-periodic Materials; Discovery and Recent Developments", MRS Bulletin, Vol 22 No 11, 1997.

R.P. Matthews, C.L. Lang and D. Shechtman, "Sliding Wear of Quasicrystalline coatings" Tribology letters 7 (1999) 179-181

C.I. Lang, D.J. Sordelet, M.F. Besser, D. Shechtman, F.S. Biancaniello and E.J. Gonzalez, "Quasicrystalline Coatings: Thermal Evolution of Structure and Properties", J. mater. Res., vol. 15 No. 9, Sept. 2000

I. Popov, D. Starosvetsky and D. Shechtman, "Initial Stages of Corrosion Within Mg-Zn-Y-Zr in 1 g/l NaCl Solution", Journal of Materials Science 38 (2000) 1-8

X. Guo, J. Kinstler, L. Glazman and D. Shechtman, "High Strength Mg-Zn-Y-Ce-Zr Alloy Bars Prepared by RS and Extrusion Technology" Materials Science Forum vol. 488-489 (2005) pp. 495-498

*X. Gou and D. Shechtman, "Extruded High-Strength Solid Materials Based on Magnesium with Zinc, Yttrium and Cerium Additives", Glass Physics and Chemistry, Vol 31 No. 1, 2005, pp 44-52

 

   

Materials Chemistry and
Biomolecular Materials Program

Ames Laboratory
Iowa State University
142 Spedding Hall
Ames, IA 50011 USA

Phone: 1.515.294.7568
FAX: 1.515.294.4709