Alan Schoen | |
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| Born | Alan Hugh Schoen December 11, 1924 Mount Vernon, New York, U.S. |
| Died | July 26, 2023 (aged 98) Carbondale, Illinois. U.S. |
| Alma mater | Yale University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| Known for | Gyroid, Rombix |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions | NASA, Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
| Thesis | Self-diffusion in alpha solid solutions of silver-cadmium and silver-indium (1958) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Lazarus |
Alan Hugh Schoen (December 11, 1924 – July 26, 2023) was an American physicist and computer scientist best known for his discovery of the gyroid, an infinitely connected triply periodic minimal surface.