Sheldon Datz

American chemist

PersonDied aged 74humanQ7493477

Born: July 27, 1927
Died: August 15, 2001
Birthplace: New York City
Place of death: Oak Ridge
Citizenship: United States
Occupation: chemist
, physicist
Education: Stuyvesant High School
Employer: Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Sheldon Datz was an American chemist. Born in New York City as the son of Clara and Jacob Datz, he went to Stuyvesant High School and received a degree in chemistry from Columbia University and the University of Tennessee. Along with Dr. Ellison Taylor, Datz was an early contributor to the invention of the molecular beam technique, for which Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee and John Charles Polanyi later won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He shared the Fermi Award in 2000 with Sidney Drell and Herbert York.

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Sex or gender: male
Military branch: United States Navy
Given name: Sheldon
Awards: Fellow of the American Physical Society
Enrico Fermi Award(2000)
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Davisson–Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics(1998)
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Family name: Datz

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