Yeshayahu Winograd

Yeshayahu Winograd was born in 1938 in Tel Aviv

Yeshayahu Winograd was born in Tel Aviv on December 3, 1938. His brother Shmuel became a computer scientist at IBM, and his uncle was the judge Eliyahu Winograd. He attended religious schools and the Zeitlin high school in Tel Aviv, and was a member of Bnei Akiva.

He joined the Artillery Corps in 1956 and fought in the Sinai campaign. He left the army in 1958 as a captain.

He studied at the Technion and finished his first degree in 1962. At Brown University he earned a master's degree in 1964 and a doctorate in 1966 on ion flow and ion engines. He then did postdoctoral research at MIT on ion propulsion for spacecraft.

In 1967 he returned to Israel, settled in Haifa and joined the Technion's mechanical engineering faculty, later heading its energy lab. He became an associate professor in 1971. His research covered fluid flow, reverse osmosis for water desalination and blood flow.

He was killed on the Golan Heights front on October 11, 1973, when a Syrian shell hit the tank he rode in. He was buried in the military cemetery in Haifa. He was married to Ruth and had 3 children.