Sheldon Datz
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 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.[2]
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.
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- AIPS obituary (Subscription required)
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