Eliahu Nissim
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| Born | אליהו נסים 1933 (age 90–91)
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| Died | 22 February 2020(2020-02-22) (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.
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]
In 1998, Nissim was named a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).[9]
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