Franz Heinrich Ollendorff, also known as Haim Ollendorff (Hebrew פרנץ אולנדורף or חיים אולנדורף; born 15 May 1900; died 9 December 1981) was an Israel

Israel

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i physicist

Physicist

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Biography

Ollendorff was born in 1900 in Berlin, Germany. Following the rise of the Nazi Party to power, he emigrated to then British Mandate of Palestine, now Israel

Israel

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, in 1937. He founded the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in the Technion, Haifa.

See also

• List of Israel Prize recipients