Yitzhak Apeloig - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Yitzhak Apeloig
- Yitzhak Apeloig (born September 1, 1944 in Uzbekistan) is a pioneer in the computational chemistry field of the Ab initio quantum chemistry methods for predicting and preparing the physical and chemical properties of materials.
- He was the president of the Technion from 2001 until 2009 where the position was handed off to Peretz Lavie.
- Distinguished Prof.
- Apeloig currently holds the Joseph Israel Freund Chair in Chemistry and is the co-director of the Lise Meitner Minerva Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry at the 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, Prof.
- Apeloig actively recruited of more than 150 elite scholars and scientists worldwide to the Technion.
- 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.
- The same year he also became a recipient of the Frederic Stanley Kipping Award in Silicon Chemistry.
