https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/buildings-and-major-facilities-4
September 2, 2010
Arison Neurobiology Building Arison Foundation Miami, FL Max and Lillian Candiotty Building Fund for Higher Education in Israel, Los Angeles, CA Ford Foundation and Population Council, New York, NY Nehemiah M. and N'chame Cohen Institute of Solid State Physics Washin...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/prof-mordechai-sheves-technology-transfer
November 1, 2009
Prof. Mordechai Sheves received both master’s and doctoral degrees in chemistry from the Weizmann Institute. He joined the Institute faculty in 1981, after completing postdoctoral research at Columbia University and, aside from a year’s residence at the University of...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/prof-yosef-nir-physics-faculty
November 1, 2009
Prof. Yosef (Yossi) Nir served as an Israel Air Force pilot before earning his Ph.D. in physics from the Weizmann Institute. Following postdoctoral studies at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, he joined the Weizmann Institute faculty in 1990. Nir conducts theoretical stu...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/prof-yehiam-prior-chemistry-faculty
November 1, 2009
Much of Prof. Yehiam Prior’s research concerns the interaction between light and matter. He measures molecular behavior on time scales much shorter than the molecules’ internal vibrational or rotational motion, in an attempt to understand their underlying dynamics. In...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/prof-ben-zion-shilo-biochemistry-faculty
November 1, 2009
Prof. Ben-Zion Shilo joined the Weizmann Institute’s Virology Department in 1981 after finishing doctoral research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT. His lab was the first to identify conservation of cancer-causing genes in mod...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/prof-benjamin-geiger-biology-faculty
November 1, 2009
Prof. Benjamin Geiger receivedhis Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute in 1977. He has been a member of the Institute faculty since 1979, when he joined the Chemical Immunology Department. Previous Institute positions held by Geiger include Dean of the Feinberg Graduate School fr...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/node/2527
September 2, 2009
Window to the Brain Aristotle realized that most of what we know of the world comes to us through our eyes. But how does that information – transferred from the eye via encoded signals – get deciphered, stored and retrieved in the brain? Prof. Shimon Ullman of...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/looking-forward-predicting-disease-and-illuminating-multidimensional-geometry-phase-transition
September 2, 2009
Math for Humanity "Mathematics," says Prof. Yakar Kannai of the Weizmann Institute's Mathematics Department, "is like a long ladder that reaches from the ground to outer space and then brings one back down to earth. The problems mathematicians address originat...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/looking-forward-interpreting-movements-galaxies-and-revealing-how-stars-explode
September 2, 2009
Why Do They Exist? The universe behaves as though it contains much more matter than what's on display. Though galaxies may hold billions of stars, to stay together they would theoretically need ten times more matter than we see through our telescopes. According to...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/looking-forward-envisioning-free-flowing-electric-current-and-new-kinds-superconductors
September 2, 2009
External Flow Under certain circumstances, an electric current can keep flowing forever. In some tiny circuits, this can even take place in materials that aren't superconductors and at temperatures approaching room temperature. Prof. Yoseph (Joe) Imry of the Instit...