Dan Shechtman (tieng Hebrew: דן שכטמן) (sinh 24 thang 1 nam 1941 tai Tel Aviv) la nha vat ly nguoi Israel đa đoat Giai Nobel Hoa hoc nam 2011.


Su nghiep Ong đau bang cu nhan khoa hoc nganh Khoa hoc ky thuat co hoc (Mechanical Engineering) nam 1966, bang thac si "Khoa hoc ky thuat co hoc" nam 1968 va bang tien si "Khoa hoc ky thuat co hoc" tai hoc vien Technion nam 1972. Shechtman sang lam nghien cuu sinh sau tien si o Hoi đong Nghien cuu quoc gia Hoa Ky (United States National Research Council) lam viec o "Cac phong thi nghiem vu tru khong gian" (Aerospace Research Laboratories) o Can cu khong quan Wright Patterson, tieu bang Ohio, noi ong nghien cuu 3 nam ve vi cau truc (microstructure) va luyen kim vat ly cua titanium aluminides. Nam 1975 ong gia nhap Phan ban Khoa hoc Ky thuat cua Technion. Tu nam 1981-1983 ong nghi phep sang lam viec o Đai hoc Johns Hopkins, noi ong nghien cuu nhanh cac hop kim chuyen tiep kim loai nhom ran lai. Trong viec nghien cuu nay, ong đa phat hien"pha 20 mat" (Icosahedral Phase), mo ra lanh vuc moi cua cac gia tinh the. Tu nam 1992-1994 ong nghi phep, sang lam viec o Vien Tieu chuan va Cong nghe quoc gia Hoa Ky, noi ong nghien cuu hieu ung cua đo hut cau truc cua kim cuong CVD ve su tang truong va cac đac tinh cua no.
Shechtman đa trai qua nhieu nam bi che gieu, tham chi bi khai tru khoi nhom nghien cuu vi viec giai thich cau truc khong đinh ky (non-periodic) cua ong (nha khoa hoc đoat giai Nobel hai lan Linus Pauling đa tung noi ong đang "noi bay" va "Chang co cai gi la tinh the gia, chi co nha khoa hoc gia thoi".) truoc khi cac nguoi khac bat đau xac nhan va cong nhan chat gia tinh the.

Nho phat hien cua Shechtman, mot so nhom khac đa co the tao ra cac gia tinh the tuong tu, (bang) viec tim kiem nhung vat lieu co nhiet thap va co suat dan đien đong thoi co tinh on đinh cau truc cao. Cac gia tinh the cung đuoc tim thay cach tu nhien. Cac vat lieu gia tinh the co the đuoc su dung trong rat nhieu ung dung, trong đo co viec tao thanh thep ben su dung cho thiet bi tinh vi, va dung lam vat lieu cach ly khong tham lot cho day đien cung thiet bi nau an.
Ong la giao su Khoa hoc Vat lieu tai Technion (Hoc vien Cong nghe Israel), la phu ta nghien cuu tai Phong thi nghiem Ames cua Bo Nang luong Hoa Ky, va giao su Khoa hoc Vat lieu tai Đai hoc bang Iowa. Ngay 8.4.1982, khi nghien cuu o Phong Tieu chuan quoc gia Hoa Ky o Washington, D.C., Shechtman đa phat hien pha 20 mat (icosahedral phase), mo ra lanh vuc moi cua gia tinh the (quasicrystal). Hien nay lam viec ban-thoi gian o Ames khoang 5 thang moi nam.
Ong đuoc trao Giai Nobel Hoa hoc nam 2011 cho "cong trinh phat hien gia tinh the".
Viec nghien cuu o Technion cua giao su Shechtman đuoc thuc hien o Trung tam Louis Edelstein, va o Trung tam Wolfson do ong lanh đao. Ong phuc vu trong nhieu Uy ban cua Ban giam đoc đai hoc Technion va lanh đao mot Uy ban trong so đo.


Gia đinh Dan Shechtman ket hon voi giao su Tzipora Shechtman, Truong ban Khuyen nhu va Phat trien con nguoi o Đai hoc Haifa, va la tac gia cua 2 quyen sach ve lieu phap tam ly. Ho co mot con trai: Yoav Shechtman (sinh vien tien si Khoa hoc Vat lieu) va ba con gai: Tamar Finkelstein, Ella Shechtman-Cory (tien si khoa Tam ly lam sang) va Ruth Dougoud-Nevo (cung tien si khoa Tam ly lam sang).


Giai thuong Giai Nobel Hoa hoc cho "cong trinh phat hien gia tinh the" (2011).
Giai Wolf Vat ly (1999).
Giai Israel ve Vat ly (1998).
2008 European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) 25th Anniversary Award (Giai Ky niem lan thu 25 Hoi Nghien cuu Vat lieu chau Au)
2002 EMET Prize ve Hoa hoc
2000 Giai Muriel & David Jacknow Technion cho viec Giang day xuat sac
2000 Giai Gregori Aminoff cua Vien han lam Khoa hoc hoang gia Thuy Đien.
1993 Giai Khoa hoc Weizmann
1990 Giai Khoa hoc ky thuat Rothschild
1988 New England Academic Award of the Technion
1988 Giai Quoc te cho Vat lieu moi cua Hoi Vat ly Hoa Ky
1986 Giai Vat ly cua Quy Friedenberg cho Thang tien khoa hoc va Giao duc


Mot so tac pham D. Shechtman, "Twin Determined Growth of Diamond Wafers", Materials Science and Engineering A184 (1994) 113.
D. Shechtman, D. van Heerden and D. Josell, "fcc Titanium in Ti-Al Multilayers", Materials Letters 20 (1994) 329.
D. van Heerden, E. Zolotoyabko and D. Shechtman, "Microstructural and Structural Characterization of Electrodeposited Cu/Ni multilayers", Materials Letters (1994).
I. Goldfarb, E. Zolotoyabko, A. Berner and D.Shechtman, "Novel Specimen Preparation Technique for the Study of Multi Component Phase Diagrams", Materials Letters 21 (1994) 149-154.
D. Josell, D. Shechtman and D. van Heerden, "fcc Titanium in Ti/Ni Multilayers", Materials Letters 22 (1995) 275-279.


Xem them D. P. DiVincenzo and P. J. Steinhardt, eds. 1991. Quasicrystals: The State of the Art. Directions in Condensed Matter Physics, Vol 11. ISBN 981-02-0522-8.


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Lien ket ngoai Story of quasicrystals as told by Shechtman to APS News in 2002.
Biography/CV Page – Technion Luu tru ngay 18 thang 1 nam 2006 tai Wayback Machine
TechnionLIVE e-newsletter Luu tru ngay 25 thang 11 nam 2015 tai Wayback Machine
Dan Shechtman (Iowa State faculty page)
Giai Aminoff