Talk:Dan Shechtman

Source suggestions
OTRS received an email from Dr. Ben-Abraham at the Department of Physics at Ben-Gurion University that I am posting here per his request.

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)

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)

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)

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)

Broken/wrong links
The links to references #2, #7, #8 are broken, and the ninth reference just goes to the main page of the website it links to. Could someone please change them (I'll try to find some references, of course)? Thanks! NeutralWikipedia 01:18, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

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