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12 Facts About Zehev Tadmor

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Zehev Tadmor is a retired Israeli chemical engineer who has served as distinguished professor, president, and chairman of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

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Zehev Tadmor is chairman of the Samuel Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology, a policy research center.

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Zehev Tadmor has published three books and 75 papers in the field.

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Zehev Tadmor worked for the Western Electric Company as a Senior Research Engineer, and then joined the Technion Faculty of Chemical Engineering in 1968.

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In 1975 Zehev Tadmor was appointed a Technion full professor, and in 1988 a Distinguished Technion Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering.

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Zehev Tadmor served as President of The Technion from 1990 to 1998.

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Zehev Tadmor is Chairman of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

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Zehev Tadmor is Chairman of the Samuel Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology, a policy research center.

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Zehev Tadmor was elected a member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 1991 for creative research and his influence on the practice of polymer processing.

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Zehev Tadmor is an elected member of the Israel Academy of Sciences.

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Zehev Tadmor was inducted into the Polymer Processing Hall of Fame in 1993, and received the Rotary Prize for "Outstanding Contributions to Higher Education in Israel".

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Zehev Tadmor was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Industrial Chemistry from the University of Bologna in 1995, and received the Society of Plastics Engineers of the USA "Extrusion Division Distinguished Service Award" and "Outstanding Achievement Award in Plastics Engineering and Technology".