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Famous Quotes,
Proverbs, and Sayings
Proverbs, and Sayings
Dan Shechtman Quote
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 | “Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.” ―Thomas Malthus Source/Notes: An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798), Chapter I |
 | “Most of the trouble in the world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.” ―William S. Burroughs Source/Notes: The Adding Machine: Selected Essays (1985), The Name is Burroughs |
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 | Source/Notes: (Leslie T. Lyall. A Passion for the Impossible: The Continuing Story of the Mission Hudson Taylor Began. London: OMF Books, 1965, 37.) |
Dan Shechtman
Born: January 1, 1941 (age 78)
Nationality: United States of America,Israel
Occupation: engineer,physicist,chemist,pedagogue,university teacher
Bio: Dan Shechtman (Hebrew: דן שכטמן; born January 24, 1941) 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 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. Shechtman was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of quasicrystals, making him one of six Israelis who have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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