Sheldon Datz

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Sheldon Datz (July 21, 1927 – August 15, 2001)[1] was born in New York City, son of Clara and Jacob Datz. He went to Stuyvesant High School[1] 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 Herbert York.[2] 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.

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  • Article by Isaac Asimov in Science Year 1967 or 68?
  • Articles in Scientific American by Alvin Weinberg concerning molecular beam work

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Chang, Kenneth. "Sheldon Datz, 74, Pioneer in Molecular Chemistry, Dies", New York Times, 2001-09-06. Retrieved on 2007-10-31. 
  2. ^ Fermi Award bio (2000-12-11). Archived from the original on 2004-10-22.

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