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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events-science-tap/science-tap-2019
May 26, 2019
When: Wednesday, June 12, at 8:30 pm. Dozens of top scientists and outstanding research students from the Weizmann Institute of Science will be in 51 bars in Tel Aviv to talk with the patrons. Their subjects will be open scientific questions that are being addressed on the cuttin...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/charts-keys-life
June 3, 2019
The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain. Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/weizmann-institute-science-ranked-top-25
June 4, 2019
The Weizmann Institute of Science has been ranked among the top 25 research institutes/universities in the world in two main categories by U-Multirank, 2019. This organization named the Institute a Global Top 25 performer in two areas: Top Cited Publications and Patents Awarded....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/glass-blower’s-tale
June 6, 2019
Yacob Meir Zilberstein, age 86, will soon be celebrating 70 years since he first started working at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He began his long career at age 17, in 1949 – the year the Weizmann Institute was established – as an assistant in the Isotope Department. While...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/making-waves-reentry
June 10, 2019
One of the most basic of quantum mechanical phenomena occurs when light strikes matter, removing an electron as it hits. To physicists, this process – photoemission – can be used as a window into the quantum world: It projects the quantum state of matter onto free electrons, prov...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-michal-schwartz-10
June 5, 2019
Prof. Michal Schwartz is the recipient of the EMET Prize in Life Sciences - Bio-Medicine Awarded by the A.M.N. Foundation....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-yair-reisner-3
June 10, 2019
Prof. Yair Reisner is the recipient of the EMET Prize in Life Sciences - Bio-Medicine Awarded by the A.M.N. Foundation....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/metamorphic-materials
June 18, 2019
We are used to thinking of matter as existing in one of three states: gas, liquid or solid. But nature, as we know, likes to mix things up a bit. One of its amusing creations is liquid crystals –states of matter which have a structure something more ordered than the “go-with-the-...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/small-institute-outsized-impact
June 19, 2019
“Size is not everything,” proclaims a Nature press release today. “Some smaller institutes are punching above their weight.” This statement arises from a new ranking conducted within the framework of the Nature Index 2019 – a normalized ranking that adds a new perspective to the...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-ora-kedem
June 19, 2019
Prof. Ora Kedem is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Israeli Associations of Chemical Engineering, Manufacturers, and Engineers and Architects....
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