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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 |
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M.Sc. Materials Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
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B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology |
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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.
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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.
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1998 |
Elected Honorary Member of IMRS (Indian Materials Research Society).
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1997 |
Elected member of the Israel Academy of Sciences.
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1996 |
The Weizmann Science Award.
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1993 |
The Rothschild Prize in Engineering. |
1990 |
The Philip Tobias Chair. |
1989 |
The New England Academic Award of the Technion.
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1988 |
The International Award for New Materials of the American Physical Society.
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1987 |
The Physics Award of the Friedenberg Fund for the Advancement of Science and Education.
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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
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