Space & Physics

Prof. Emeritus Ephraim Frei

Innovative Imaging System for the Detection of Breast Cancer

12.09.2010

Space & Physics, Benefiting Humanity

Prof. Emeritus Ephraim Frei, a founder of electronics research at the Weizmann Institute in the 1950s, spent several decades studying the effects of...

Prof. Amos Breskin

Advanced Radiation Detectors

12.09.2010

Space & Physics, Benefiting Humanity

Prof. Amos Breskin develops advanced radiation detectors, which have an important impact on many fields of research, such as particle, nuclear and...

Prof. Yehiam Prior

Cutting Diamonds With Lasers

12.09.2010

Space & Physics, Chemistry, Benefiting Humanity

Prof. Yehiam Prior developed an advanced method for cutting diamonds with lasers. The method practically halves the loss of material and makes it...

Prof. Joe Jaffe

From Rehovoth Instruments to Elop

12.09.2010

Space & Physics, Benefiting Humanity

In the 1960s, Prof. Joe Jaffe, a founder of optics research at Weizmann, opened a company to manufacture scientific instruments. Called Rehovoth...

Prof. Asher Friesem

Compact Head Displays for Pilots

12.09.2010

Space & Physics, Benefiting Humanity

Prof. Asher Friesem was among the first in the world to become involved in the technology of planar optics. In this technology, several diffractive...

Prof. Zeev Vager

Radiation Detectors

12.09.2010

Space & Physics, Benefiting Humanity

Prof. Zeev Vager and his Weizmann colleagues developed innovative radiation detectors based on electron amplification and other technological...

Dr. Naama Barkai

Cell Destiny

02.09.2010

Space & Physics, Molecular and Cell Biology, Genetics

The term "biological computer" seems to turn up in any discussion of possible future inventions. But Dr. Naama Barkai of the Weizmann Institute's...

Diagram of a hyperbolic surface with infinite genus, from the research of Prof. Omri Sarig

Does God Play Dice?

30.08.2010

Space & Physics

Randomness has always been seen as an impartial, unpredictable method of decision making. But is there such a thing as true randomness?

W particle produced in a collision in the ATLAS experiment, triggered by Weizmann-made detectors (red lines). Image: the ATLAS Experiment at CERN

Where Does Mass Come From?

30.08.2010

Particle Physics

The hunt is on for solving the riddle of the source of mass in the Universe

(l-r) Dr. Roee Ozeri, Profs. Adi Stern, Yaron Silberberg and Nir Davidson

Will Quantum Physics Revolutionize the Digital World?

30.08.2010

Quantum Physics

Computers based on quantum mechanics might complete, reasonably quickly, calculations that would take today’s computers a million years

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