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September 1, 2008
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November 9, 2003
Address given on November 9, 2003 by Stuart E. Eizenstat, Chair of the Weizmann Institute's International Board of Governors, in memory of Abba Eban, President of the Weizmann Institute of Science (1959-1967) David [Sieff] it’s a particular honor to be...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/ethics-and-genetics
July 1, 2004
Are Human Rights and Human Traditions Threatened by Scientific Progress? Prof. Michel Revel Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel The human genome project Introduction The pitfalls of a DNA dogma Bio...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/interferon-story
June 5, 2007
Prof. Michel Revel was just a teenager when Alick Isaacs and Jean Lindenmann discovered why infection with one virus could prevent disease when a second virus attacked soon after. Until then it was believed that the first virus somehow managed to stymie th...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/god-particle
March 8, 2009
by Prof. Eilam Gross The extraordinary experiment being conducted in CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), in Switzerland, aspires to bring us closer than ever to the moment of Creation – the Big Bang, when the elementary particles making up the Univ...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events--science-culture/humanity-and-humanism-bioethical-perspective
November 10, 2002
Hubert Markl, Professor of Biology, University of Konstanz, Germany Former President of the Max Planck Society, Munich Chaim Weizmann Lecture in Humanities 2002 November 10, 2002, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel For sev...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events-/analog-man-digital-age
June 5, 2002
Address delivered by Yossi Vardi at the degree-awarding ceremony of the Feinberg Graduate School, Weizmann Institute of Science, June 5, 2002 “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” – with these words Charles Dickens opened his book A Tale of T...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/questions-ban-human-cloning-research
November 1, 2004
by Prof. Michel Revel Prof. Michel Revel of the Weizmann Institute of Science is Israel's representative to UNESCO's International Bioethics Committee which drafted the Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights. The Declaration was voted upon by UNESCO's...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/-and-events--science-culture-/scientific-cooperation-state
July 1, 2004
The Role of Scientists in mitigating international discord Ambassador Hanan Bar-On, Advisor to the President, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Edited by Allison L. C. de Cerreño and Alexander Keynan And published at the ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/research-small-country
March 1, 2001
by Prof. Michael Sela* Excerpts from lecture given in March 2001 in Tokyo within the frame of the Asia and Pacific Rim International Molecular Biology Network. Previously published in EMBO reports vol. 2 | no. 8 | 2001 'Let me say here that the min...