Dan Shechtman is the Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and Professor of Materials Science at Iowa State University. The Technion &ndash Israel Institute of Technology (הטכניון &ndash מכון טכנולוגי לישראל is an internationally-acclaimed Institute of technology in The Iowa State University of Science and Technology, more commonly known as Iowa State University (ISU is a public land-grant and space-grant university In 1982, he discovered the icosahedral phase, which opened the new field of quasiperiodic crystals. Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) Quasicrystals are structural forms that are both ordered and nonperiodic