Talk:Dan Shechtman

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OTRS received an email from Dr. Ben-Abraham at the Department of Physics at Ben-Gurion University [http://www.bgu.ac.il/physics/Index_people.html] that I am posting here per his request.

{{Cquote|The DeVicenzo-Steinhardt book is certainly not the best reference for quasicrystals (that's an understatement). I would recommend, for instance:

  • Christian Janot: Quasicrystals -- a primer, 2nd ed. Oxford UP 1997 (you'll find more on the respective Google page).
  • Quasicrystals, Hans-Rainer Trebin (editor), Wiley-VCH. Weinheim 2003.
  • Marjorie Senechal: Quasicrystals and geometry, Cambridge UP 1995.
  • Jean-Marie Dubois: Useful quasicrystals, World Scientific, Singapore 2005.
  • Walter Steurer, Sofia Deloudi: Crystallography of quasicrystals, Springer, Heidelberg 2009.
  • Quasicrystals: The Silver Jubilee, Ron Lifshitz, Dan Shechtman, Shelomo I. Ben-Abraham (editors),
  • Philosophical Magazine Special Issue 88/13-15 (2008).}}

His contact information is at the link above.--Chaser (talk) 01:16, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

Location in 198x

The NPR article says he was at NIST in 1982, but his biography (http://materials.technion.ac.il/st/) says he was at Johns Hopkins at that time and at NIST a decade later. Zeev.tarantov (talk) 14:33, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Aerospace Research Laboratories??

In the lead paragraph, it says "Prof. Shechtman was an NRC fellow at the Aerospace Research Laboratories at Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio,... I can't find any other references to this lab. There is an Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright Patterson AFB (see related wikipedia article) 17:51, 5 October 2011 (UTC) ontomeister

The current organizational chart of the AFRL is from 1997. Before that, there existed the Wright Laboratory, part of which was the "Material Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH". That sounds exactly like the kind of place where a materials science post doc would study high-tech aluminum alloys. The current organization has the "Materials and Manufacturing Directorate" which continues that work. Zeev.tarantov (talk) 12:26, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Interesting photo should be on here for historical value: Schechtman's notebook (credit Iowa State?)

See photo of his notebook at:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/10/chemistry-nobel/

The exclamation points in Schechtman's notebook. Image: Iowa State University

Is this doable? Aleacar (talk) 18:27, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

sources

i found that the bbc article had errors,

if someone would like to append this article further, i recommend:

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/10/discoverer-of-impossible-crystal.html

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111005/full/news.2011.572.html

(129.128.50.162 (talk) 18:38, 5 October 2011 (UTC))

Where is the early life section?

No mention about where he obtained his degrees -the story start with him after completing the PhD..--Gilisa (talk) 20:09, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Class=C, Chemistry template

I have upgraded this article to class=C, and added the Chemistry template, since he won the Nobel in Chemistry, not Physics. --DThomsen8 (talk) 00:05, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

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Congratulations . . . .

My heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Shechtman, and after reading his personal info on him and his distinguished family, I was wondering what the conversation must be like at the family dinner table? :-) Ineuw talk page on English Wikisource 22:29, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

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The picture that is third from the top

The picture that is third from the top on the right is described variously. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.160.47.195 (talk) 08:55, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

:It is said to be "Al-Pd-Mn" and "Ag-Al". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.160.47.195 (talk) 09:03, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

::The wikipedias in other languges are divided between the two alloys. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.177.248.127 (talk) 14:08, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Plagiarism?

The quasi crystal section borrows quite liberally from the 14th cited source at the time of this writing.

ItsDrewMiller (talk) 00:00, 24 February 2015 (UTC)