Arthur Blok, 1st president of the Technion

Arthur Blok (1882–1974) was a British-Jewish electrical engineer who served as the first President of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa from 1924 to 1925. Blok was the personal assistant to the renowned physicist John Fleming. In 1945, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire and received an honorary Doctorate from the Technion in 1972. Blok passed away in London in 1974 at the age of 92.

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