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Changing short description from "American chemist" to "American chemist (1927–2001)"

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{{Short description|American chemist (1927–2001)}}
'''Sheldon Datz ''' (July 21, 1927 – August 15, 2001)<ref name="Times_obit">{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A02EFD91239F935A3575AC0A9679C8B63 |title=Sheldon Datz, 74, Pioneer in Molecular Chemistry, Dies | first=Kenneth |last=Chang | date=2001-09-06 |work=[[New York Times]] |accessdate=2007-10-31}}</ref> was an American [[chemist]]. Born in [[New York City]] as the son of Clara and Jacob Datz, he went to [[Stuyvesant High School]]<ref name="Times_obit"/> 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]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.er.doe.gov/fermi/html/Laureates/2000s/sheldond.htm|title=Fermi Award bio|date=2000-12-11|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100628101649/http://www.er.doe.gov/fermi/html/Laureates/2000s/sheldond.htm|archivedate=2010-06-28}}</ref>

Datz served in the [[United States Navy|U.S. Navy]] and moved to [[Oak Ridge, Tennessee]] upon the opening of federal nuclear facilities there after the [[Second World War]]. He married Roslyn Gordon Datz and fathered two children: William (Bill) Datz and Joan Ellen Datz Green. They divorced, and Sheldon later married Jonna Holm Datz of Denmark.

==Awards==

*1998 [[Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics]]
* 2000 [[Enrico Fermi Award]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20081122095951/http://www.aip.org/pt/vol-55/iss-11/p88c.shtml AIPS obituary] (Subscription required)

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