Benjamin Shapira
Biography
Benjamin Shapira was born in Germany in 1913. His family immigrated to British Mandate of Palestine in 1926 and settled in Afula. He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1933 and obtained a BSc in natural sciences in 1937. In 1940, he was awarded a PhD.
Awards
- In 1955, Shapira was awarded the Israel Prize, for medical science.[1]
gollark: It's obviously possible to stabilise helicopters because people can control helicopters.
gollark: Also, you could plausibly have a way to communicate telemetry and stuff to knowledgeable ground control people.
gollark: How common are ridiculously unplanned failure modes? And how much do the humans actually get them right?
gollark: There is the problem that your thing might rely too much on simulation quirks.
gollark: If you can simulate the plane down to parts-level, which is admittedly probably quite hard (but computers inevitably get faster), you can just randomly generate failure cases.
References
- "Israel Prize recipients in 1955 (in Hebrew)". cms.education.gov.il (Israel Prize official website). Archived from the original on March 4, 2010.
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