Yeshayahu Talmon

Yeshayahu (Ishi) Talmon is Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering, at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. He holds BSc and MSc degrees in Chemical Engineering from Technion, earned his PhD in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science of the University of Minnesota, and subsequently joined the faculty at Technion. At Technion he served as Dean of the Wolfson Faculty of Chemical Engineering, as Head of the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute (RBNI), and was the incumbent of the Wolfson Chair in Chemical Engineering. Nationally, he served as a member of the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education. A world-renowned scientist, Talmon pioneered the development and application of cryogenic techniques for electron microscopy, particularly in direct-imaging techniques of cryogenic-temperature transmission electron microscopy (cryo-TEM), and cryogenic-temperature scanning electron microscopy (cryo-SEM). His research group studies the self-aggregation of molecules in the liquid phase, in aqueous and non-aqueous media, using electron microscopy at cryogenic temperatures as their primary experimental tool. Prof. Talmon is an honorary member of the Israel Society of Microscopy and the Israel Institute of Chemical Engineers. He has received numerous awards, notably, a Doctor of Science honoris causa from the University of Lund, Sweden, and the Overbeek Gold Medal of the European Colloid and Surface Society. He is an elected member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.