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who has served as distinguished professor, president, and chairman of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. He is also chairman of the Samuel Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology, a policy research center. His main research interest is

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and processing. He won the

in 2005.

Biography

Tadmor received his B.Sc and M.Sc degrees in

from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and his doctorate in chemical engineering from the

in New Jersey. Tadmor's main research interest is

and

and processing. He has published three books and 75 papers in the field. He worked for the

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as a Senior Research Engineer, and then joined the Technion Faculty of Chemical Engineering in 1968. In 1975 Tadmor was appointed a Technion full professor, and in 1988 a Distinguished Technion Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering. From 1984 to 1988 he served as Dean of the Department of Chemical Engineering. Tadmor served as President of The Technion from 1990 to 1998. He is Chairman of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. He is also Chairman of the Samuel Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology, a policy research center.

Accolades

Tadmor was elected a member of the US

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in 1991 for creative research and his influence on the practice of

processing. He is also an elected member of the

Israel Academy of Sciences Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, based in Jerusalem, was established in 1961 by the State of Israel to foster contact between Israeli scholars in the sciences and humanities and create a think tank for advising the government on res ...

. He was inducted into the Polymer Processing Hall of Fame in 1993, and received the Rotary Prize for "Outstanding Contributions to Higher Education in Israel". Tadmor was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Industrial Chemistry from the

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in 1995, and received the

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of the USA "Extrusion Division Distinguished Service Award" and "Outstanding Achievement Award in Plastics Engineering and Technology". He won the

in 2005 in Exact Sciences in the field of chemical engineering "for his original and pioneering contribution to the field of polymer processing, transforming it into a new and important engineering discipline, and for his academic leadership as a pre-eminent mentor and researcher in chemical engineering in Israel."

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tadmor, Zehev Academic staff of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni Stevens Institute of Technology alumni Chemical engineering academics Members of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities 1937 births Living people 20th-century Israeli engineers Technion – Israel Institute of Technology presidents Israeli chemical engineers Foreign associates of the National Academy of Engineering EMET Prize recipients in the Exact Sciences