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Prof. Yosef Shaul

Crossing a Continent, Then a Street

01.10.1999

People and Events,Made at the Institute

Prof. Yosef Shaul wanted to be a scientist since his childhood in Iran

Prof. Yosef Yomdin

A Lucky Five Minutes

01.10.1999

People and Events,Made at the Institute

Prof. Yosef Yomdin took first place in the Siberia Mathematics Olympics in 1965, at age 16

Prof. Tamar Flash

No Math Is an Island

01.10.1999

People and Events,Made at the Institute

Prof. Tamar Flash uses mathematics and physics to understand how the brain controls motion

Prof. Haim Garty

Hometown Boy

01.10.1999

People and Events,Made at the Institute

Prof. Haim Garty's relationship with the Institute began at age 2, when his family immigrated from Bulgaria to Rehovot

Prof. Ron Naaman

How Does It Work?

01.10.1999

People and Events,Made at the Institute

Prof. Ron Naaman recalls the days when a child could pry apart a radio to see how it works

Prof. Jacob Klein

Pursuing Polymers

01.10.1999

People and Events,Made at the Institute

Prof. Jacob Klein hadn't intended to study science when he was accepted to Cambridge University

Prof. Yehiel Zick

Resisting Insulin Resistance

01.10.1999

People and Events,Made at the Institute

Prof. Yehiel Zick's career as a scientist began with a high-school research project on hemoglobin

Prof. Itamar Procaccia

To the Library, and Back

01.10.1999

People and Events,Made at the Institute

Prof. Itamar Procaccia's interests in art, poetry and Zen mesh with his research into chaotic phenomena

"Self-Healing" Discovered in a Solar Cell Material

01.07.1999

People and Events,Events,Conferences

Self-healing is normally the province of living creatures, but now a Weizmann Institute-led research team has discovered that it can occur in a semiconductor. This finding, presented in June at the European Materials Research Conference in Strasbourg and soon to be published in the scientific journal Advanced Materials, may help create better solar cells and other electronic devices.

Weizmann Institute Scientist Designs The First General-Purpose Mechanical Computing Device To Serve As The Basis For A Biological Computer

Weizmann Institute Scientist Designs The First General-Purpose Mechanical Computing Device To Serve As The Basis For A Biological Computer

15.06.1999

People and Events,Events,Conferences

The first general-purpose mechanical computer designed for biomolecular and pharmaceutical applications has been developed by Prof. Ehud Shapiro of the Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Department at the Weizmann Institute of Science. The mechanical computer will be presented today at the Fifth International Meeting on DNA-Based Computers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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