Which Institute did Dan Shechtman associate with the US?
CIA
Ames National Laboratory
FDA
NASA
Answer
Dan Shechtman is an Israeli-American physicist. He is the winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of quasicrystals, materials with ordered atomic structures that cannot be described by the classical laws of crystallography. In the 1970s, Shechtman was working at the Ames National Laboratory in Iowa, when he observed strange patterns in electron diffraction images of aluminum-manganese alloys.
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