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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/appointment-yeda
August 11, 2009
Dr. Ruth Ben-Yakar has been appointed Chief Business Officer of Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd., which promotes the industrial application of inventions made by Weizmann Institute scientists. Dr. Ben-Yakar replaces Dr. Einat Zisman, who served in this post for eight years...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/new-technique-may-speed-development-molecular-electronics
July 26, 2007
THE INSIDE DOPE Often, things can be improved by a little 'contamination.' Steel, for example is iron with a bit of carbon mixed in. To produce materials for modern electronics, small amounts of impurities are introduced into silicon – a process called doping. It is the...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/node/1368
November 4, 2007
Weizmann Institute launches a new nationwide Women in Science Program: 11 Young Israeli woman scientists to receive career enhancement awards In a festive ceremony at the Weizmann Institute of Science, 11 young women scientists, who had completed their Ph.D. studies with h...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/honorary-doctorates
November 4, 2007
The following people will be receiving honorary doctor of philosophy degrees from the Weizmann Institute of Science The degrees will be awarded at a ceremony to be held Monday, Nov. 5 at 17:00 in the Wix Auditorium. Arie Lova Eliav Born in Moscow (1921...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/risk-distribution-law-evolution
November 1, 2007
Weizmann Institute Scientists Discover: A 'Risk Distribution Law' for Evolution Rehovot, Israel – November 1, 2007 When are the genes adventuresome, and when are they conservative? Prof. Naama Barkai will receive the Helen and Martin Kimmel Award for Innovative...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/genes-affect-reponses-ms-copaxone
October 10, 2007
Israeli scientists identify: Genes that Affect Responses of Multiple Sclerosis Patients to Copaxone® A group of Israeli scientists from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, the Weizmann Institute of Science and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries have recently identif...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/memory-smell
November 9, 2009
From Proust’s Madeleines to the overbearing food critic in the movie Ratatouille who’s transported back to his childhood at the aroma of stew, artists have long been aware that some odors can spontaneously evoke strong memories. Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Sc...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/sweet-smell
September 18, 2007
Weizmann Institute Scientists discover: The pleasantness of an odor can be predicted from its molecular structure What makes one smell pleasant and another odious? Is there something in the chemistry of a substance that can serve to predict how we will perceive its smell?...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/big-blow
December 3, 2009
The first observations of the explosion of a star around 200 times the size of our sun reveals a new type of supernova What happens when a really gargantuan star – one hundreds of times bigger than our sun – blows up? Although a theory developed years ago describes w...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/new-nanotube-structures
May 27, 2008
Weizmann Institute Scientists Create New Nanotube Structures Thanks to the rising trend toward miniaturization, carbon nanotubes – which are about 100,000 times thinner than a human hair and possess several unique and very useful properties – have become the choice candida...
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