Yitzhak Apeloig

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Yitzhak Apeloig
Ph.D
יצחק אפלויג
Technion
Term9
PredecessorAmos Lapidot
SuccessorPeretz Lavie
AwardsFrederic Stanley Kipping Award in Silicon Chemistry, 2010
Websitewww.admin.technion.ac.il/ApeloigYitzhak/

Yitzhak Apeloig (יצחק אפלויג; born 1 September 1944 in

Technion
. He served as dean of the Faculty of Chemistry from 1995 to 1999, where he was named Teacher of the Year at three occasions.

During his Technion presidency, Apeloig recruited more than 150 elite scholars and scientists worldwide to the Technion.[4] He also established a number of interdisciplinary research centers such as the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute. He also established the Lorry I. Lokey Interdisciplinary Center for Life Sciences and Engineering. In 2010 was inducted to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[4] The same year he also became a recipient of the Frederic Stanley Kipping Award in Silicon Chemistry.[5]

Biography

Apeloig was born in

John A. Pople.[6] Apeloig joined the faculty of the Technion in 1976 and in 1983 he was appointed professor. He became the dean of the Faculty of Chemistry in 1995 until 2001 when he became the president of the Technion, replacing Amos Lapidot.[7] In 2009 he was followed as President by Peretz Lavie.[7]

Awards

  • 2011 – Received the
  • 2010 – Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2010 – American Chemical Society Fredric Stanely Kipping Award in Silicon Chemistry[10]
  • 2010 – Alexander von HumboldtLise Meitner Senior Research Award
  • 2009 – Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • 2008 – Honorary Member, Mexican Academy of Sciences
  • 2007 – Wacker Silicone Award
  • 2006 – Honorary Doctorate of Science from the
    Technische Universität Berlin
    , Germany
  • 2002 – C. A Coulson Lecturer, University of Georgia, Athens, USA
  • 2002 – The Israel Chemical Society Prize
  • 1997 – Distinguished Teacher Award by the Technion Student Association
  • 1996 – Granted a Minerva Center in Computational Quantum Chemistry
  • 1994–1999 – Alexander von Humboldt – Lise Meitner Senior Research Award
  • 1993 – Distinguished Teacher Award by the Technion Student Association
  • 1993 – Senior Scientist Exchange Fellow, Israel-Italy National Council for Research and Development
  • 1991, 1993 – Henri Gutwirth Prize for Excellence in Research by the
    Technion
  • 1991, 1999, 2010 – Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Senior Visiting Professor Award
  • 1988 – Technion Award for Academic Excellence, Technion (The New England Prize)
  • 1986 – Distinguished Teacher Award by the Technion Student Association
  • 1986 – Louis Klein Visiting Professorship in Australian Universities
  • 1985, 1991 –
    Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
    (DAAD) Visiting Professor
  • 1979 –
    Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
    (DAAD) Fellowship
  • 1977–1978 – Bat-Sheba de Rothschild Fellow
  • 1974 – Yashinski Prize for Distinguished Ph.D. Thesis
  • 1971 – Prize for Distinguished Student of the Dean of the Faculty of Sciences,
    Hebrew University
  • 1965–1967 – Annual Prize for Distinction in Chemistry Studies,
    Hebrew University

Publication

References

  1. ^ "Yitzhak Apeloig". Technion. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
  2. ^ a b c "Apeloig Yitzhak Web Site – Technion". Archived from the original on 15 February 2018. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
  3. ^ "Technion President Yitzhak Apeloig to Receive Chemical Society Prize – American Society for Technion-Israel Institute of Technology". Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
  4. ^ a b "Nobel Laureate Delivers First Apeloig Lectureship – American Society for Technion-Israel Institute of Technology". Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
  5. ^ "Frederic Stanley Kipping Award in Silicon Chemistry". ACS. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
  6. ^ a b c d "Yitzhak Apeloig bio". cen.acs.org.
  7. ^ a b "President | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology". Technion. 9 August 2015. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
  8. ^ "German Order of Merit to Distinguished Prof. Yitzhak Apeloig". FOCUS Magazine. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
  9. ^ "Interview with prof. Yitzhak Apeloig". Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
  10. ^ "Yitzhak Apeloig". Retrieved 27 November 2013.

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