단 셰흐트만

소개

단 셰흐트만(히브리어: דן שכטמן, Dan Shechtman, 1941년 1월 24일 ~ )은 이스라엘의 재료과학자이다. 1982년에 준결정 구조를 최초로 발견하였으며 이후 발견 및 관련 연구에 대한 공로로 2011년 노벨 화학상을 수상하였다.

Dan Shechtman is the Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, an Associate of the US Department of Energy's Ames National Laboratory, and Professor of Materials Science at Iowa State University. On April 8, 1982, while on sabbatical at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., Shechtman discovered the icosahedral phase, which opened the new field of quasiperiodic crystals, also referred to as "quasicrystals." For this discovery, he was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, making him one of six Israelis who have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.