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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/hot-and-dense-plasmas
January 1, 1999
The fourth state Plasma is the fourth, less well-known state of matter, a state in which gas particles are ionized and charged. There are different plasmas containing various substances, differing from each other in degrees of density, velocity, temperature or...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chaos-theory
January 1, 1999
Spatiotemporal disorder Going with the flow The behavior of flat whirlpools Spatiotemporal disorder Weizmann Institute physicists studied pattern formation and spatiotemporal pattern dynamics in fluid systems. They discovered several s...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/new-products-and-processes
January 1, 1999
Chemistry was the first discipline established at the Weizmann Institute, and its chemists continue to make their mark in areas ranging from the elucidation of such basic structures of life as the ribosome (the body’s protein factory) to the development of innovative industr...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/technology-transfer
January 1, 1999
The Weizmann Institute was the first academic institution in Israel to create a technology transfer organization for promoting the commercialization of its research. Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd., founded in 1959, is charged with finding the right...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-teaching/science-young
January 1, 1999
Today, scientific literacy is a critical decision-making tool. The Institute's Science Teaching Department plays a key role in the national effort to raise the level of science education for Israel's junior and senior students in both Hebrew- and Arabic-speaking schools....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/learning-about-past
January 1, 1999
Massada Artifacts dated by the Institute's carbon-14 lab have yielded evidence to support the account of mass suicide in the fortress; analysis of the Roman rampart used in the storming of Massada showed that the climate at that time was more conducive to agriculture...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/michael-and-anna-wix-auditorium
December 7, 2010
The Michael and Anna Wix Auditorium Architects: Arieh Sharon and Benjamin Idelson The Michael and Anna Wix Auditorium, designed by the architects Arieh Sharon and Benjamin Idelson in 1955, is the largest performance hall (620 seats) on the Weizmann Institute cam...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-culture/architects
December 7, 2010
Benjamin Chaikin was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1883. He completed his studies in architecture in England, where he designed a number of buildings before World War I, during which he served as an officer in the Corps of Royal Engineers. He immigrated to Eretz Israel...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/take-axon-train
March 14, 2011
If the body of a nerve cell were a meter wide, some of its extensions, called axons, would stretch for dozens of miles. Yet signaling molecules, as well as other sub...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-yoram-groner-deputy-president
December 1, 2000
Since Prof. Yoram Groner joined the Weizmann Institute in 1975, he has held a number of positions. He headed the Institute's Biological Services (1985-1988), the Virology Department, later renamed Molecular Genetics and Virology (1987-1992), and the Harry Levi...
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