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Gershon Kekst, on background of the court dedicated to his family in the Jubilee Plaza

Tikkun Olam

01.10.2002

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Chairman of the Board of Governors Gershon Kekst has played a crucial role in steering the Weizmann Institute of Science into greener pastures over a period of nine years

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.

New President of the Weizmann Institute of Science

New President of the Weizmann Institute of Science

14.11.2001

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The Board of Governors of the Weizmann Institute of Science has elected Prof. Ilan Chet to the position of Institute President. Prof. Chet will assume presidential responsibilities on December 1, 2001, with the conclusion of Prof. Haim Harari's 13-year term in office. Prof. Chet was born in Haifa in 1939. He completed his doctoral work in microbiology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agriculture, in Rehovot.

Basic Instincts, Basic Research

Basic Instincts, Basic Research

01.11.2001

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Raising children is undoubtedly among the most rewarding of projects, and yet also demanding and uncertain. In this respect, it greatly resembles scientific research.

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