Eliahu Nissim (אליהו נסים; born 1933) is an Israeli former Sidney Goldstein Professor in Aeronautical Engineering at

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology ( he, הטכניון – מכון טכנולוגי לישראל) is a public research university located in Haifa, Israel. Established in 1912 under the dominion of the Ottoman Empire, the Technio ...

, and a former President of the

Open University of Israel The Open University of Israel ( he, האוניברסיטה הפתוחה, ''Ha-Universita ha-Ptuha'') is a distance-education university in Israel. It is one of ten public universities in Israel recognized by the Council of Higher Education (C ...

Biography

Nissim was born in Israel in 1933. In 1957, he graduated with a B.Sc. from the

University of Bristol The University of Bristol is a Red brick university, red brick Russell Group research university in Bristol, England. It received its royal charter in 1909, although it can trace its roots to a Society of Merchant Venturers, Merchant Venturers' sc ...

, in 1961 with an M.Sc. from

, and in 1963 with a Ph.D. from the

. He won the Sir George Taylor Prize in England in 1966. He worked at the

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in Virginia from 1969 to 1970, and again from 1975 to 1976. 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. He served as President of the

from 1997 to 2003.

Honors

In 1998, Nissim was named a Fellow of the

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(AIAA)."AIAA Fellows"
AIAA, January 2015.

References

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