Eliahu Nissim

Eliahu Nissim (אליהו נסים; born 1933) is 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.

Eliahu Nissim
Born
אליהו נסים

1933 (age 86–87)
Israel
NationalityIsraeli
Known for

Biography

Nissim was born in Israel in 1933.[1][2] 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.[1][2] Nissim won the Sir George Taylor Prize in England in 1966.[1][2]

He worked at the NASA Langley Research Center in Virginia from 1969 to 1970 and again from 1975 to 1976.[1][3][4][5]

Nissim has taught at Technion since 1958, where he has been a full professor since 1978.[1][2] He was Head of the Department of Aeronautical Engineering from 1971 to 1973 and from 1978 to 1980, 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][2]

He was President of the Open University of Israel from 1997 to 2003.[1][6][7][8][9]

In 1998 Nissim was named a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).[10]

References
  1. "Eliahu Nissim," Faculty of Aerospace Engineering; Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
  2. le-Yiśraʼel, Ṭekhniyon, Makhon ṭekhnologi (1973). Research Report. Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. – via Google Books.
  3. NASA Activities; Volume 4, Issue 6. United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 1973 – via Google Books.
  4. Administration, United States National Aeronautics and Space (1978). Significant NASA Inventions. United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration – via Google Books.
  5. "ANALYSIS OF AEROELASTIC MODELSTABILITY AUGMENTATION SYSTEMS," NASA, March 1971.
  6. "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.
  7. "It's Never Too Late to Learn," e.openu.ac.il.
  8. Tim Boxer. "OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL; Irving Rosenbaum Honored For Supporting Education". 15minutes.
  9. Sally Wecksler (2003). "International Literary Market Place". R.R. Bowker Company.
  10. "AIAA Fellows," AIAA, January 2015.
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