Franz Ollendorff | |
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| Born | (1900-05-15)May 15, 1900 Berlin, Germany |
| Died | December 9, 1981(1981-12-09) (aged 81) |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Awards | Israel Prize (1954) IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal (1971) |
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| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Technion |
Franz Heinrich Ollendorff (Hebrew פרנץ אולנדורף or חיים אולנדורף; May 15, 1900 – December 9, 1981) was an Israeliphysicist.
Franz Heinrich (Haim) Ollendorf was born inBerlin. In 1924, he joined theSiemens research department in Berlin, working underReinhold Rüdenberg. From 1928 he taught in the engineering faculty of theBerlin Technische Hochschule. Despite protest from his supervisor and university rector Ernst Orlich, the Nazis forced Ollendorff to resign in 1933.Soon after the dismissal, Ollendorff joined the teaching staff of the Jewish public school in Berlin, moving toJerusalem when the school and staff transferred there in 1934.
Ollendorff returned to Germany in the following year to organize the transfer of Jewish children toMandatory Palestine within the framework of the newly establishedYouth Aliyah. In 1937 he was finally expelled by theGestapo. In 1939, he joined the staff of theHaifa Technion and founded the faculty of electrical engineering in which he was professor. He specialized in biomedical electronics and physics.
He was a member of theIsrael Academy of Sciences and was awarded theIsrael Prize for his research inmagnetic fields (1954). He was elected a fellow of theAmerican Institute of Electrical Engineers in 1963 and served as the institute's vice president.
His interest in the education of teenagers made him a keen supporter of the Technion's vocational high school.
Ollendorff wrote books and papers on electronics, physics, mathematics, acoustics, medical electronics, technical education, and other specialized fields. His publications include Die Grundlagen der Hochfrequenztechnik (1926); Erdstroeme (1928); Die Welt der Vektoren (1950); and Innere Elektronik (1955).
In 1954, Ollendorff was awarded theIsrael Prize, inexact sciences.[1]
A plaque commemorating Orlich's courage hangs in the Physics department at theTechnion.[2]
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