{"id":83839,"date":"2013-05-21T12:50:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T09:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/blog\/qualcomm-co-founder-awarded-the-technion-medal\/"},"modified":"2013-05-21T12:50:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T09:50:32","slug":"qualcomm-co-founder-awarded-the-technion-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/qualcomm-co-founder-awarded-the-technion-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"Qualcomm Co-Founder awarded the Technion Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9537 alignright\" alt=\"26\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/26-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>Dr. Irwin Jacobs was given the Institute\u2019s greatest recognition at an anniversary ceremony marking 20 years of Qualcomm activities in Israel<\/h2>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Dr. Irwin Jacobs, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO Emeritus of Qualcomm, received last night, the Technion Medal, the greatest recognition by the Institute awarded only every 3 to 5 years. He received the medal during a festive event in Haifa, marking 20 years of Qualcomm activities in Israel.<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Technion President, Professor Peretz Lavie, spoke about the long-standing friendship and generous philanthropic activities of Dr. Jacobs and his wife Joan with the Technion. Technion\u2019s Graduate School is named for them, as is the Center for Communications and Information Technologies. They have recently donated $133 million to the Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute in New York.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Technion President thanked Dr. Jacobs, \u201cThank you so very much for all you have done for Technion, engineering, the field of telecom, academia, Israel, and future scientists \u2013 you are truly a great leader, model citizen, and a real \u2018mench.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Dr. Jacobs responded to the words of gratitude, saying that it is not Technion that need thank him but he who needs to thank the Technion, \u201cMany of Qualcomm\u2019s employees are Technion graduates,\u201d he said. \u201cThe company would not have attained many of its achievements if it hadn\u2019t been for its brilliant employees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>In the picture: Holding the Technion Medal (from right to left) Dr. Irwin Jacobs, Joan Jacobs, and Professor Peretz Lavie. Photographer: Shlomo Shoham, Technion Spokesperson\u2019s Office<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Irwin Jacobs was given the Institute\u2019s greatest recognition at an anniversary ceremony marking 20 years of Qualcomm activities in Israel Dr. Irwin Jacobs, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO Emeritus of Qualcomm, received last night, the Technion Medal, the greatest recognition by the Institute awarded only every 3 to 5 years. 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