Prof. Ronan, a faculty member in the department of nuclear engineering at the university and served three times as head of the department * studied, among other things, the possibility of nuclear propulsion in space
Prof. Yigal Ronan from the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Ben-Gurion University was informed these days that he will be awarded an honorary doctorate by the Russian Academy of Sciences, based on his extraordinary scientific achievements. An honorary doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences is considered the highest honor awarded in Russia to a foreign scientist. Prof. Ronan is the only winner of this award for 2009.
Prof. Ronan, a faculty member in the nuclear engineering department at the university since 1976, was head of the nuclear engineering department for three terms; He served as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Sciences between 2003-2008; Between the years 1995-2003, Prof. Ronan served as vice rector and dean of the Kreitman School of Advanced Research Studies.
Prof. Ronan wrote and edited six books and wrote over 120 articles, eight of which were in the field of archaeology. Among his outstanding achievements is a proposal to use the element americium as nuclear fuel mainly for propulsion in space. Discovery of nuclear correlations called Ronen correlations in the literature.
The publication of his book Uncertainty Analysis, published by CRC, turned this subject into a scientific discipline. Based on his outstanding scientific achievements, Prof. Ronen was elected a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society in 1988. In 2007, Prof. Ronan received an honorary doctorate from the St. Petersburg Polytechnic, Russia.
The award ceremony will take place in Moscow in May 2009.
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Well done, how fun to hear that we have talented people in our country
On the way to the Nobel Prize ….. good luck 🙂
Well done, he deserves everything, what modesty. If he was a politician. It was at the top of the news
Another one on the way to the Nobel Prize
Good Day
Sabdarmish Yehuda