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The Weizmann Institute of Science ( Machon Weizmann LeMada), known as Machon Weizmann is a university and research institute in Rehovot
Rehovot

Rehovot is a city in the Center District of Israel, about 20 kilometre south of Tel Aviv. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , at the end of 2007 the city had a total population of 106,200....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
. It differs from other Israeli universities in that it offers only graduate and post-graduate studies in the sciences.

ded in 1934 by Chaim Weizmann
Chaim Weizmann

Chaim Azriel Weizmann, , was a Zionism leader, President of the World Zionist Organization, and the first President of the State of Israel. He was Israeli presidential election, 1949 on 1 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952....
 as the Daniel Sieff
Israel Sieff

Israel Moses Sieff, Baron Sieff was a United Kingdom businessman.He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Manchester University. One of the theatres at the Manchester Grammar School is named in his honour....
 Research Institute, it was renamed the Weizmann Institute of Science in his honor on November 2, 1949.






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The Weizmann Institute of Science ( Machon Weizmann LeMada), known as Machon Weizmann is a university and research institute in Rehovot
Rehovot

Rehovot is a city in the Center District of Israel, about 20 kilometre south of Tel Aviv. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , at the end of 2007 the city had a total population of 106,200....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
. It differs from other Israeli universities in that it offers only graduate and post-graduate studies in the sciences.

History

Founded in 1934 by Chaim Weizmann
Chaim Weizmann

Chaim Azriel Weizmann, , was a Zionism leader, President of the World Zionist Organization, and the first President of the State of Israel. He was Israeli presidential election, 1949 on 1 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952....
 as the Daniel Sieff
Israel Sieff

Israel Moses Sieff, Baron Sieff was a United Kingdom businessman.He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Manchester University. One of the theatres at the Manchester Grammar School is named in his honour....
 Research Institute, it was renamed the Weizmann Institute of Science in his honor on November 2, 1949. Before he became President of the State of Israel, Weizmann pursued his research in organic chemistry
Organic chemistry

Organic chemistry is a discipline within chemistry which involves the science study of the structure, properties, composition, chemical reaction, and preparation of chemical compounds that contain carbon....
 at its laboratories. The Weizmann Institute presently has about 2,500 students, staff, and faculty, and awards M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics
Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space, change, and related topics of pattern and form. Mathematicians seek out patterns whether found in numbers, space, natural science, computers, imaginary abstractions, or elsewhere....
, computer science
Computer science

Computer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation, and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems....
, physics
Physics

Physics is the natural science which examines basic concepts such as energy, force, and spacetime and all that derives from these, such as mass, charge, matter and its Motion ....
, chemistry
Chemistry

Chemistry is the science concerned with the composition, structure, and properties of matter, as well as the changes it undergoes during chemical reactions....
, biological chemistry and biology
Biology

Biology is a branch of the natural sciences concerned with the study of living organisms and their interaction with each other and their environment ....
, as well as several interdisciplinary programs.

Youth programs

In addition to its academic programs, the Weizmann Institute runs programs for young people, including science clubs, camps and competitions. The Bessie F. Lawrence International Summer Science Institute accepts high school graduates from all over the world for a four-week science-based summer camp
Summer camp

Summer camp is a supervised program for children and/or teenagers conducted during the summer months in some countries. Children and adolescents who attend summer camp are known as campers....
. The Clore Garden of Science, which opened in 1999, is the world’s first completely interactive outdoor science museum
Science museum

A science museum or a science centre is a museum devoted primarily to science. Older science museums tended to concentrate on static displays of objects related to natural history, paleontology, geology, industry and industrial machinery, etc....
.

Awards

In 1996 and 2002 respectively, two Weizmann Institute researchers - Amir Pnueli
Amir Pnueli

Amir Pnueli is an Israeli computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1996 for seminal work introducing temporal logic into computing science and for outstanding contributions to program and systems verification....
 and Adi Shamir
Adi Shamir

Adi Shamir is an Israeli cryptography. He was one of the inventors of the RSA algorithm , one of the inventors of the Feige-Fiat-Shamir Identification Scheme , one of the inventors of differential cryptanalysis and has made numerous contributions to the fields of cryptography and computer science....
 - won the Turing Award
Turing Award

The A. M. Turing Award is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community....
.

Ada Yonath
Ada Yonath

Ada E. Yonath is an Israeli crystallography best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosome. She is the current director of the Helen and Milton A....
 won the Wolf Prize
Wolf Prize

The 'Wolf Prize' is an international award, has been presented annually since 1978 to living science and artists for "achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among peoples ......
 for Chemistry in 2006. Several faculty have been awarded Wolf Prizes in Medicine, including Leo Sachs
Leo Sachs

Leo Sachs is a Germany-born Israeli molecular biologist and cancer researcher. Born in Leipzig, he Emigrated to England in 1933, and to Israel in 1952....
 (1980), Meir Wilchek
Meir Wilchek

Meir Wilchek is an Israeli biochemist.He is a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science. In 1987, he won the Wolf Prize in Medicine along with Pedro Cuatrecasas "for the invention and development of affinity chromatography and its applications to biomedical sciences." ...
 (1987), and Michael Sela
Michael Sela

Michael Sela is an Israelis immunologist of Poland origin. He is W. Garfield Weston Professor of Immunology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot....
 and Ruth Arnon
Ruth Arnon

Ruth Arnon is an Israeli biochemist and codeveloper of the multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone. She was awarded the Wolf Prize in Medicine in 1998....
 (shared, 1998).

Distinguished Faculty

  • Haim Harari
    Haim Harari

    Haim Harari is an Israeli theoretical physicist who has made contributions in particle physics, science education, and other fields....
    , theoretical physicist
  • Chaim Weizmann
    Chaim Weizmann

    Chaim Azriel Weizmann, , was a Zionism leader, President of the World Zionist Organization, and the first President of the State of Israel. He was Israeli presidential election, 1949 on 1 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952....
    , chemist, first President of the State of Israel
  • Ephraim Katzir
    Ephraim Katzir

    Ephraim Katzir is an Israeli biophysics and former Israeli Labor Party politics. He served as the President of Israel for a five-year term, from 1973 until 1978....
    , biophysicist, fourth President of the State of Israel
  • Mordehai Milgrom
    Mordehai Milgrom

    Mordehai Milgrom is an Israeli physicist and professor in the department of Condensed Matter Physics at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot. He is most famous for his proposal of Modified Newtonian dynamics as an alternative to the dark matter and galaxy rotation curves problem, in 1981....
    , physicist
  • Amir Pnueli
    Amir Pnueli

    Amir Pnueli is an Israeli computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1996 for seminal work introducing temporal logic into computing science and for outstanding contributions to program and systems verification....
    , Computer science
  • Adi Shamir
    Adi Shamir

    Adi Shamir is an Israeli cryptography. He was one of the inventors of the RSA algorithm , one of the inventors of the Feige-Fiat-Shamir Identification Scheme , one of the inventors of differential cryptanalysis and has made numerous contributions to the fields of cryptography and computer science....
    , cryptographer
  • Ada Yonath
    Ada Yonath

    Ada E. Yonath is an Israeli crystallography best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosome. She is the current director of the Helen and Milton A....
    , crystallographer
  • Igal Talmi
    Igal Talmi

    Igal Talmi is an Israeli nuclear physicist, mainly known for his work on the theory of nuclear structure....
    , physicist
  • Harry J. Lipkin
    Harry J. Lipkin

    Harry Jeannot Lipkin , also known as Zvi Lipkin, is an Israeli theoretical physicist specializing in nuclear physics and elementary particle physics....
    , physicist


Presidents

  • Chaim Weizmann
    Chaim Weizmann

    Chaim Azriel Weizmann, , was a Zionism leader, President of the World Zionist Organization, and the first President of the State of Israel. He was Israeli presidential election, 1949 on 1 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952....
     (1949-1952; 1934-1952 if predecessor Daniel Sieff Institute included)
  • Meyer Weisgal (1952-1959, as "Head of the Executive Council")
  • Abba Eban
    Abba Eban

    Abba Eban was an Israeli diplomat and politician....
     (1959-1966)
  • Meyer Weisgal (1966-1969, as President)
  • Albert Sabin
    Albert Sabin

    Albert Bruce Sabin was an United States medical researcher best-known for having developed an oral polio vaccine....
     (1969-1972)
  • Israel Dostrovsky (1972-1975)
  • Michael Sela
    Michael Sela

    Michael Sela is an Israelis immunologist of Poland origin. He is W. Garfield Weston Professor of Immunology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot....
     (1975-1985)
  • Aryeh Dvoretzky
    Aryeh Dvoretzky

    Aryeh Dvoretzky was a Russian born Israeli mathematician, the winner of the 1973 Israel Prize in Mathematics. He is best known for his work in functional analysis, statistics and probability....
     (1985-1988)
  • Haim Harari
    Haim Harari

    Haim Harari is an Israeli theoretical physicist who has made contributions in particle physics, science education, and other fields....
     (1988-2001)
  • Ilan Chet
    Ilan Chet

    Ilan Chet is an Israelis microbiologists and a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agriculture in Rehovot....
     (2002-2006)
  • Daniel Zajfman
    Daniel Zajfman

    Daniel Zajfman is an Israeli physicist, his actual research interests are centered around the Physics of simple molecular ions. On December 1 2006 he was elected as the tenth president of the Weizmann Institute....
     (2006-present)




See also

  • List of universities in Israel
  • Science and technology in Israel
    Science and technology in Israel

    Israeli contributions to science and technology have been significant. Since the establishment of the State of Israel, Israel has worked in science and engineering....


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