Sheldon Datz
American chemist
Intro | American chemist | |
Places | United States of America | |
was | Scientist Chemist Physicist | |
Work field | Science | |
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Birth | 27 July 1927, New York City | |
Death | 15 August 2001 (aged 74 years) |
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 with Dr. Ellison Taylor 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.
He served in the Navy and moved to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, upon the opening of federal nuclear facilities there after the Second World War. He was married to Jonna Holm Datz and was the father of two children.