Eliahu Nissim | |
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| Born | אליהו נסים 1933 (age 90–91) Israel |
| Died | 22 February 2020 (aged 86–87) |
| Nationality | Israeli |
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Eliahu Nissim (אליהו נסים; 1933-2020) was an Israeli former Sidney Goldstein Professor in Aeronautical Engineering at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and a former president of the Open University of Israel.
Biography
Nissim was born in Israel in 1933. [1] In 1957, he graduated with a B.Sc. from the University of Bristol, in 1961 with an M.Sc. from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and in 1963 with a Ph.D. from the University of Bristol. He won the Sir George Taylor Prize in England in 1966. [1] He worked at the NASA Langley Research Center in Virginia from 1969 to 1970, and again from 1975 to 1976. [2] [3] [4]
Nissim taught at Technion since 1958, where he has been a full professor since 1978. He was Head of the Department of Aeronautical Engineering from 1971-73, and from 1978-80, Technion's Vice President for Academic Affairs and Senior Vice President from 1983 to 1986, and its Sidney Goldstein Professor in Aeronautical Engineering from 1989 to 1998. [1]
He served as president of the Open University of Israel from 1997 to 2003. [5] [6] [7] [8]
Honors
In 1998, Nissim was named a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). [9]
References
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c le-Yiśraʼel, Ṭekhniyon, Makhon ṭekhnologi (1973).
Research Report. Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. – via Google Books.
{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) - ^ NASA Activities; Volume 4, Issue 6. United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 1973 – via Google Books.
- ^ Administration, United States National Aeronautics and Space (1978). Significant NASA Inventions. United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration – via Google Books.
- ^ "ANALYSIS OF AEROELASTIC MODELSTABILITY AUGMENTATION SYSTEMS", NASA.gov, March 1971.
- ^ "Four Million Dollars for Construction of a Center for Integrating Technology in Teaching at the Open University’s New Raanana Headquarters" e.openu.ac.il. Accessed 6 November 2022.
- ^ "It's Never Too Late to Learn," e.openu.ac.il. Accessed 6 November 2022.
- ^ Tim Boxer. "OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL; Irving Rosenbaum Honored For Supporting Education". 15minutes. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
- ^ Sally Wecksler (2003). International Literary Market Place. R.R. Bowker Company. ISBN 9781573871440.
- ^ "AIAA Fellows", AIAA, January 2015.
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- Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni
- Academic staff of the Open University of Israel
- Aeronautical engineers
- 20th-century Israeli educators
- 1933 births
- Langley Research Center
- Academic staff of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
- Alumni of the University of Bristol
- 20th-century Israeli engineers
- Presidents of universities in Israel
- Fellows of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Living people