The Dean of the Faculty of Aeronautics and Space Engineering at the Technion, Professor Omri Rand, who was a student of Professor Singer, said that the methods he developed are being applied by scientists and industries around the world
The Technion House mourns the passing of Professor Yosef Singer, former president of the Technion. Professor Singer, recipient of the Israel Prize, was born in Vienna in 1923 and immigrated to Israel in 1933. He was active in the "Haganah" and was one of the first in Israel to receive a pilot's license, which he did at the same time as studying aeronautical engineering.
Professor Singer served in the British Army at the end of World War II, graduated with honors in aircraft engineering studies at the University of London and upon his return to Israel was one of the founders of the Air Force's engineering department. He completed doctoral studies at the Polytechnic Institute in New York, joined the Technion and continued to advise the Air Force, the Navy, Rafael and the Ministries of Defense and Science. Professor Singer (Yozhi Pi Kell) served twice as Dean of the Faculty of Aeronautics and Space Engineering and as President of the Technion in 1982-1986. He served as a guest lecturer at leading universities in the USA, Great Britain and France and his research was part of the set of experiments that preceded the Apollo space program and the production of the Saturn 5 rocket. In the years 1971-1973, Professor Singer was the head of the engineering division and VP of the aerospace industry.
"We have lost a great scientist and a beloved, humble and noble friend," said the president of the Technion, Professor Peretz Lavi. "His contribution to the Technion, to the State of Israel and its security, as well as to global research in the fields of aeronautics and space - was enormous. Professor Singer educated many generations of aeronautics and space engineers and left his mark on the advanced aerospace industry of the State of Israel."
The Dean of the Faculty of Aeronautics and Space Engineering at the Technion, Professor Omri Rand, who was a student of Professor Singer, said that the methods he developed are applied by scientists and industries worldwide, also in industries related to civil engineering, mechanical engineering and ship engineering. "Professor Singer has received outstanding international recognition," he said. "He was the first Israeli to be elected a foreign fellow of the American Academy of Engineering, the first Israeli of the International Academy of Astronautics, the first Israeli of the French Academy of Aeronautics and Space, and the first Israeli to be elected a fellow of the American Aeronautics and Astronautics Association. Dozens of his students currently occupy senior positions in industry and academia."
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On this unfortunate occasion to also mention that recently (November 8) one of the greatest physicists of the 1995th century - Vitali Ginzburg - passed away. Ginzburg won the Wolf Prize in 2003 and in XNUMX he won the Nobel Prize together with Abrikosov and Athoni Leggett. Ginzburg, like many of the former USSR physicists, was Jewish. He visited Israel several times and recently used to lecture about the time when he worked together with the famous Jewish physicist Lev Landau. Ginzburg, together with Andrei Sakharov, are considered the fathers of the Russian hydrogen bomb. Among Ginzburg's important discoveries: the Ginzburg Theory -Landau for phase transitions, a theory describing the progress of electromagnetic radiation in plasma, and a theory explaining the origin of cosmic radiation.
Of blessed memory.