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The front door of the administrative building with the former name Koffler particle accelerator. The Weizmann Institute of Science (Hebrew: מכון ויצמן למדע Machon Weizmann LeMada) is a public research university in Rehovot, Israel, established in 1934, fourteen years before the State of Israel was founded.
It has two towers, of 57 and 53 meters high, and an "egg-shaped structure", 22 by 14 meters in its widest points. It became a symbol of the Weizmann Institute of Science. [1] [2] It was designed to have "a close resemblance to the original van de Graaff accelerators". [3] It is named after Murray Koffler, who was the first Chair of Weizmann ...
Dan Yakir (Hebrew: דן יקיר; born June 23, 1953) is an Israeli Ecophysiologist and a Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Yakir is a 2019 recipient of the Israel Prize for Research in Geology, Earth Sciences and Atmospheric Sciences.
Weizmann residence, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot In 1926, he bought an old villa, and in 1928, he designed Rupenhorn, nearly 4000 m 2 , which the family occupied two years later. With an expensive publication about his new home, illustrated by Amédée Ozenfant among others, Mendelsohn became the subject of envy.
On December 1, 2006, he was elected as the tenth president of the Weizmann Institute, the youngest ever. He was in turn succeeded in 2019 by Alon Chen. [2] On January 1, 2020, he was elected as the Chair of the Academic Board of the Israel Science Foundation. In 2023 he received the Harnack Medal.
Meyer Wolf Weisgal (מאיר וולף וייסגאל / וייסגל; [1] November 10, 1894 – September 29, 1977) was an American journalist, publisher, playwright, fundraiser, and Zionist activist who served as the President of the Weizmann Institute of Science and as the founding President of Beit Hatfutsot (the Jewish Diaspora Museum).
View of the entrance to the Weizmann House. The Weizmann House (Hebrew: בית ויצמן) was the home of the first President of Israel, Chaim Weizmann, and first First Lady, Vera Weizmann. The house sits atop a hill in Rehovot, and is now part of the Weizmann Institute of Science. The architect was Erich Mendelsohn.
Oded Goldreich (Hebrew: עודד גולדרייך; b. 1957) is a professor of computer science at the faculty of mathematics and computer science of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. His research interests lie within the theory of computation and are, specifically, the interplay of randomness and computation, the foundations of ...