- Sheldon Datz
Sheldon Datz (
July 21 ,1927 –August 15 ,2001 )cite news |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A02EFD91239F935A3575AC0A9679C8B63 |title=Sheldon Datz, 74, Pioneer in Molecular Chemistry, Dies | first=Kenneth |last=Chang | date=2001-09-06 |publisher=New York Times |accessdate=2007-10-31] was born inNew York City , son of Clara and Jacob Datz. He went toStuyvesant High School and received degrees inChemistry fromColumbia University andUniversity of Tennessee . He did early work inventing the molecular beam technique which later won theNobel Prize in Chemistry forDudley R. Herschbach ,Yuan T. Lee andJohn Charles Polanyi . He shared theFermi Award in 2000 withSidney Drell andHerbert York . [cite web |url=http://www.pnl.gov/fermi/citations/datz-cit.htm |title=Fermi Award bio |archiveurl=http://www.pnl.gov/fermi/citations/datz-cit.htm | archivedate=2004-10-22 | date=2000-12-11 ] He served in the Navy and moved to Oak Ridge, Tenn., upon the opening of federal nuclear facilities there after the Second World War. He is the father of two children, William and Joan.Awards
*1998
Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics ee also
* Article by
Isaac Asimov in Science Year 1967 or 68?
* Articles in Scientific American byAlvin Weinberg concerning molecular beam workReferences
External links
* [http://www.aip.org/pt/vol-55/iss-11/p88c.shtml AIPS obituary] (Subscription required)
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