Misplaced Pages

Montefiore Institute

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.

The Montefiore Institute ( French : Institut Montefiore ) is the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the Faculty of Applied Sciences of the University of Liège , Belgium .

#733266

4-415: It was founded in 1883 and is named after Georges Montefiore-Levi . 50°35′10″N 5°33′38″E  /  50.58611°N 5.56056°E  / 50.58611; 5.56056 This Belgian university, college or other education institution article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Georges Montefiore-Levi Georges Montefiore-Levi (18 February 1832 – 24 April 1906)

8-589: The Belgian Association of Photography. He improved existing technology so that it was possible to take up to fifteen wax-paper negatives without opening a camera, and he introduced a canopy that allowed for the immediate processing of collodion negatives . In 1866, he married Hortense Bischoffsheim  [ fr ] , daughter of Jonathan-Raphaël Bischoffsheim . He died at his home in Brussels in 1906. This Belgian biographical article

12-509: Was a Belgian politician, industrialist and inventor of Jewish extraction who created the first phosphorus bronze . He was born in Streatham , South London . His father, Isaac Levi, was a merchant, and his mother was a first cousin of financier Moses Montefiore . A businessman and an active philanthropist, Montefiore-Levi represented Liège in the Senate from 1882 to 1901, and he

16-640: Was the president of the 1892 international monetary conference that met in Brussels. Montefiore-Levi founded one of Belgium's oldest engineering schools, the Institut Montefiore in Liège, and it later became part of the University of Liège . He also established an asylum for convalescent children in Esneux that he named after his wife. He had an interest in photography and was once president of

#733266