Eliahu Nissim

Eliahu Nissim (Hebrew: אליהו נסים; 1933 – 22 February 2020) was an Israeli aeronautical engineer and academic who was the Sidney Goldstein Professor in Aeronautical Engineering at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and a former president of the Open University of Israel.

Eliahu Nissim
אליהו נסים
Born	1933 (1933) Israel
Died	22 February 2020(2020-02-22) (aged 86–87)
Nationality	Israeli
Known for	Sidney Goldstein Professor in Aeronautical Engineering at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology 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 from 1958, where he has been a full professor from 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]

Nissim died on 22 February 2020.^[9]

Honors

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