Dan Shechtman

Daniel Shechtman, known in Hebrew as דן שכטמן, is an Israeli-American physicist, chemist, engineer, and pedagogue born in Tel Aviv in 1941. He holds citizenship in Israel and the United States and speaks Hebrew and English. His professional work focuses on crystallography and extractive metallurgy, with a specific interest in chemistry.

Shechtman has been employed by the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Iowa State University, and the University of Iowa. He received his education at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where he also works. He was a candidate in the 2014 Israeli presidential election.

His accolades include the Israel Prize, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Wolf Prize in Physics, and the Gregori Aminoff Prize. He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Academia Europaea.