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Prof. Abraham "Edek" Blaugrund in his physics lab

A Fateful Encounter with a Physics Book

28.12.2017
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After joining the Weizmann Institute in the 1950s, Prof. Abraham "Edek" Blaugrund made significant contributions to the field of plasma physics 
Weizmann and Neuberg

Swept Up in the Currents of History

26.03.2017
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Weizmann and Neuberg, friends on two sides of a conflict
(l-r) Tova Presman, Anna Weisman, Helen Katz, Gila Udi, Yaffa Berko, Anat Shaibin, Nitzhona Akshuti and Geula Issachar

The Scanners’ Story

02.09.2014
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They came to work on physics experiments – and found life-long friends
The first electron microscope (Saul, RCA – EMU - 2A). (l-r) John Fany, Prof. David Danon and Dr. Yehuda Marikovsky, 1956

Someone to Operate It and a Place to Put It

03.08.2014
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The story of the first electron microscope at the Institute
Prof. Ada Yonath was nominated Honors Program Lecturer at New York University School of Medicine; received the 2008 Linus Pauling Gold Medal from Stanford University; and was named George E. Palade Distinguished Lecturer and Gold Medal recipient at Wayne State University.

A Life in Science

26.11.2013
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Prof. Ora Kedem is a membrane research pioneer
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Drugs and the War

08.04.2013
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The Weizmann Institute – and the outbreak of WWII – played leading roles in the establishment of Israel’s pharmaceutical industry
The Weizmann family in Pinsk, Belorussia, 1904. Standing (l-r): Masha, Anna, Moshe, Fanya and her husband Feivel, Fruma, Chaim, Gita and Shmuel Weizmann. Sitting (l-r): Haya and Abraham Lichtenstein, Minna, Rachel Leah, Ozer and Yehiel Weizmann, Miriam and Chaim Lubzhinsky

Family Trials

18.06.2012
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Two of Chaim Weizmann’s siblings – Shmuel and Masha – remained in Russia after the revolution
Inauguration of the Weizmann Institute of Science, November 2, 1949

At the Helm

27.02.2012
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It was with great sorrow that Dr. Benjamin Marcus Bloch gave up on physics to take on the management of the Daniel Sieff Research Institute at the request of Dr. Chaim Weizmann.
Scientist in the Service of Israel: The Life and Times of Ernst David Bergmann (1903-1975)

The Incorrigible Optimist

27.02.2012
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A new biography tells the extraordinary story of the Institute’s first scientific director
100 Milestones in Physics at the Weizmann Institute

Out to the Universe - Into the Atom

25.12.2011
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Stormy Findings and Hot Discoveries

A cryo-scanning electron microscope image of a freeze-fractured chloroplast, cropped from the surrounding tissue, providing a view into the photosynthetic membranes and the protein complexes embedded within them

Into the Light

Class of 2024

“You Are Our Hope!”

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Both Faster and Stronger

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27.08.2024
The Weizmann Institute of Science Ranked among the World’s Top Ten Academic Institutions
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26.08.2024
A Discovery to Set Your Heart a-Knocking
An image of tissue from the human small intestine obtained with the help of fluorescent dyes that made it possible to mark numerous proteins in parallel, thereby mapping out the various proteins produced in each part of the intestinal villi
07.08.2024
Navigating the Digestive Tract