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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/mans-search-meaning
August 31, 2004
Yesterday How do we understand the world around us? How do we know what our eyes see? Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the 17th-century philosopher and mathematician, believed that the eye performs an interpretive function; the information it conveys to the brain contain...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/life-string
August 31, 2004
Yesterday An exciting and frightening idea has occupied human thought for thousands of years. It vibrated in the mind of Democritus, the 5th century BCE philosopher, who conceived the idea of an atom as a basic, indivisible unit of matter; it took on a new s...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/cell-talk
August 31, 2004
Yesterday Efforts to eavesdrop on the communication lines between proteins in our bodies used to consist of long, often cumbersome experiments - each supplying an answer to only a single question. They were similar, in a sense, to randomly reading the Encycl...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/art-folding
August 31, 2004
Yesterday Proteins - the fundamental building blocks of life - start out as floppy, randomly shaped chains. They have to fold into precise three-dimensional structures to become functional. Even a slight mistake in this folding process can result in disease....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/mending-human-machine
August 31, 2004
Yesterday In 1958, an accident at a nuclear reactor in the former Yugoslavia granted an ambitious young physician a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. With numerous people harmed by the radiation that had spilled from the reactor, Dr. George Mathe came up with...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/campus
August 31, 2004
Yesterday Since its establishment, the Weizmann Institute of Science has been characterized by a fruitful synergy between its scientific leadership and the administration. Dr. Chaim Weizmann and Meyer Weisgal understood that by assuring the highest quality technical...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/node/2423
September 1, 2010
The Armour Family Career Development Chair of Cancer Research Greenwich, CT The Adolfo and Evelyn Blum Career Development Chair of Cancer Research New York, NY The Anna and Maurice Boukstein Career Development Chair Family and Friends New York, NY The Dr. Victor L. E...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-samual-safran
September 1, 2010
Prof. Samuel Safran is a physicist who works with chemists, biologists, and other physicists to understand the structure and organization of soft matter and biomaterials. He joined the Weizmann Institute in 1990 as a professor in the Department of Materials and Interfaces, served...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-david-mukamel
September 1, 2010
Prof.David Mukamel studies how properties of materials are altered in response to such environmental changes as temperature, magnetic fields, and pressure. His research targets a better understanding of phase transitions, spontaneous symmetry breaking, and other collecti...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/battling-glaucoma
January 1, 2002
One in every hundred adults in the Western world suffers from chronic glaucoma, a disease that causes blindness. In most cases the disease results from increased pressure inside the eye, caused by defective drainage of the transparent liqui...
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