Weizmann
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Weizman is a surname
, common amongst Jews, that may refer to:
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
, common amongst Jews, that may refer to:
- Ezer WeizmanEzer Weizman' was the seventh President of Israel, first elected in 1993 and re-elected in 1998. Before the presidency, Weizman was commander of the Israeli Air Force and Minister of Defense.-Biography:...
, the seventh President of the State of Israel (1993-2000) - Chaim WeizmannChaim WeizmannChaim Azriel Weizmann, , was a Zionist leader, President of the Zionist Organization, and the first President of the State of Israel. He was elected on 1 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952....
, a chemist, statesman, President of the World Zionist Organization, first President of Israel and founder of a research institute in Israel which eventually became the Weizmann Institute of Science - Martin WeitzmanMartin WeitzmanMartin Lawrence "Marty" Weitzman is a well known-economist and a Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He is among the most influential economists in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc...
, economist and Professor of Economics at Harvard University- Weizmann Institute of ScienceWeizmann Institute of ScienceThe Weizmann Institute of Science , known as Machon Weizmann, is a university and research institute in Rehovot, Israel. It differs from other Israeli universities in that it offers only graduate and post-graduate studies in the sciences....
, a world-renowned institute of higher learning and research in Rehovot, Israel - Faisal-Weizmann AgreementFaisal-Weizmann AgreementThe Faisal–Weizmann Agreement was signed on January 3, 1919, by Emir Feisal , who was for a short time King of the Arab Kingdom of Syria or Greater Syria in 1920, and was King of the Kingdom of Iraq from August 1921 to 1933, and Chaim Weizmann as part of the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 settling...
, an agreement signed as part of the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 - Weizmann organism, a commercially valuable bacterium, included in the genus Clostridium
- WEIZACWEIZACThe WEIZAC was the first computer in Israel, and one of the first large-scale, stored-program, electronic computers in the world....
(Weizmann Automatic Computer), the first computer in Israel, and possibly the first large-scale, stored-program, electronic computer outside the US and Europe
- Weizmann Institute of Science
- Maria WeizmannMaria WeizmannMaria Weizmann - ?) was a sister of Israeli politician and notable scientist Chaim Weizmann . She graduated from a university in Switzerland and worked as a doctor in Moscow from 1915....
, a sister of Israeli politician and notable scientist Chaim Weizmann - Vera WeizmannVera WeizmannVera Weizmann , wife of Chaim Weizmann, the first president of the State of Israel, was a medical doctor and a Zionist activist.-Biography:...
, wife of Chaim Weizmann, medical doctor and a Zionist activist