Sheldon Datz
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Sheldon Datz (July 21, 1927 – August 15, 2001) was born in New York City, son of Clara and Jacob Datz. He went to Stuyvesant High School and received degrees in Chemistry from Columbia University and University of Tennessee. He did early work inventing the molecular beam technique which later won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee and John Charles Polanyi. He shared the Fermi Award in 2000 with Sidney Drell and a third scientist.
[edit] See also
- Article by Isaac Asimov in Science Year 1967 or 68?
- Articles in Scientific American by Alvin Weinberg concerning molecular beam work
[edit] External links
- Fermi Award bio
- AIPS obituary (Subscription required)
