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Analog man in a digital age

Analog man in a digital age

05.06.2002

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Address delivered by Yossi Vardi at the degree-awarding ceremony of the Feinberg Graduate School, Weizmann Institute of Science, June 5, 2002

Science demonstations at the Science Festival

Science Plus Festival

01.05.2002

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The Passover holiday Science Festival drew over 10,000 over three days

The Color of Success

The Color of Success

01.05.2002

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Everything you ever wanted to know about paint and colors. Now these are the focus of a unique educational program

Dr. Michael Elbaum

Opening the Gates

01.01.2002

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Dr. Michael Elbaum of the Weizmann Institute’s Material and Interfaces Department studies the passage of molecules through the cell’s nucleusgates, using a unique tool: tweezers composed of laser beams. By means of laser light he traps the migrating molecules and follows them on their journey.

Dr. Nir Davidson

Atoms in the Dark

01.01.2002

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What precisely happens when an atom sheds its particle form and changes into a wavy guise? When does this happen and why? These basic questions, at the core of matter’s existence, are the research focus of Dr. Nir Davidson of the Weizmann Institute’s Physics of Complex Systems Department.

Dr. Michal Irani

A Visual Window into Space and Time

01.01.2002

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Whether spellbinding or tedious, a video film seems like a simple sequence of pictures. Yet it encompasses often-overlooked spatial and temporal information. Dr. Michal Irani of the Weizmann Institute's Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Department develops advanced methods for extracting and analyzing this information

Prof. Yaron Silberberg

Secrets of the Third Harmony

01.01.2002

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Prof. Yaron Silberberg, the Head of the Weizmann Institute’s Physics of Complex Systems Department, has a vision: to take a penetrating look inside the most minuscule of objects.

Structure of a retinal protein (purple) and its key co-worker (blue)

The Chemistry of Vision

01.01.2002

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It was long believed that the rotation of the "retinal molecule" was the first stage in vision. However, Prof. Mordechai Sheves of the Weizmann Institute’s Organic Chemistry Department revealed that the retinal protein’s structure changes even when rotation of its internal retinal molecule is prevented, suggesting that the visual process starts even earlier.

Prof. Avigdor Scherz

Light Harvesting

01.01.2002

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Chlorophyll molecules have been selected by nature over billions of years of evolution to help plants and certain bacteria utilize sunlight to drive the production of carbohydrates. Prof. Avigdor Scherz of the Weizmann Institute’s Plant Sciences Department and Prof. Yoram Salomon of the Biological Regulation Department have recently prepared chlorophyll derivatives that might also help save the eyesight of humans.

Prof. Amiram Grinvald

In the Eye of the Beholder

01.01.2002

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What happens in our brains while listening to music or deciphering dual optical illusions, like the one illustrated above? Prof. Amiram Grinvald and his research team at the Weizmann Institute’s Neurobiology Department have directly observed the first clues to the neuronal basis of the truism “It’s all in the eye of the beholder.” Sensory perception, the researchers proved, is a dual process.

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