Yitzhak Apeloig

<p>Yitzhak Apeloig  is a pioneer in the <a href="/facts/Computational_chemistry/KyuCgRV3">computational chemistry</a> field of the <a href="/facts/Ab_initio_quantum_chemistry_methods/Rwuu2At1">Ab initio quantum chemistry methods</a> for predicting and preparing the physical and chemical properties of materials. He was the president of the <a href="/facts/Technion/BXIHd5sP">Technion</a> from 2001 until 2009 where the position was handed off to <a href="/facts/Peretz_Lavie/sJqRHYAm">Peretz Lavie</a>. 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 <a href="/facts/Technion/BXIHd5sP">Technion</a>. He served as dean of the Faculty of Chemistry from 1995 to 1999, where he was named Teacher of the Year at three occasions.
</p><p>During his Technion presidency, Apeloig recruited  more than 150 elite scholars and scientists worldwide to the Technion. He also established a number of interdisciplinary research centers such as the <a href="/facts/Russell_Berrie_Nanotechnology_Institute/VnjFfLkP">Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute</a>. He also established the Lorry I. Lokey Interdisciplinary Center for Life Sciences and Engineering. In 2010 was inducted to the <a href="/facts/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences/KptWYgz4">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a>. The same year he also became a recipient of the Frederic Stanley Kipping Award in Silicon Chemistry.
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Yitzhak Apeloig