Chemist
Dan Shechtman
Israeli chemist whose quasicrystals were ridiculed before the Nobel.
Dan Shechtman is an Israeli chemist, the Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, an Associate of the US Department of Energy's Ames National 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, also referred to as "quasicrystals." For this discovery, he was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, making him one of six Israelis who have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- Born
- 1941-01-24, Tel Aviv, IsraelA Friday
- At birth
- Sun in Aquarius, Moon in Sagittarius
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1941-01-24, Tel Aviv, Israel · time unknown, noon chart
Asia/Jerusalemthe zone used then
Asia/JerusalemThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Aquarius | 4°00′ | Direct |
| Moon | Sagittarius | 25°23′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Aquarius | 12°43′ | Direct |
| Venus | Capricorn | 13°05′ | Direct |
| Mars | Sagittarius | 13°12′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Taurus | 6°40′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Taurus | 8°05′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Taurus | 22°09′ | Retrograde |
| Neptune | Virgo | 27°31′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Leo | 3°10′ | Retrograde |
Dan Shechtman is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Dan Shechtman was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.