| Weizmann Institute of Science | |
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| מכון ויצמן למדע | |
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| Established: | 1949 |
| Type: | Public |
| President: | Prof. The date of establishment or date of founding of an Institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. University president is the title of the highest ranking officer within a University, within university systems that prefer that appellation over other variations such as Daniel Zajfman |
| Location: | Rehovot, Israel |
| Website: | http://www.weizmann.ac.il/ |
The Weizmann Institute of Science (Hebrew: מכון ויצמן למדע), known as Machon Weizmann is a university and research institute in Rehovot, Israel. Daniel Zajfman ( Hebrew: דניאל זייפמן - born June 7 1959) is an Israeli Physicist, his actual research interests are centered For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics. A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics. It differs from other Israeli universities in that it offers only graduate and post-graduate studies in the sciences. There are eight official universities in Israel. In addition there are a few dozen Colleges and other institutes of higher learning as well as about a dozen See also Postgraduate Training in Education Postgraduate education (synonymous in North America with graduate education, and sometimes described
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History
Founded in 1934 by Chaim Weizmann as the Daniel Sieff Research Institute, it was renamed the Weizmann Institute of Science in his honor on November 2, 1949. Chaim Azriel Weizmann ( Hebrew: חיים עזריאל ויצמן – November 27, 1874 &ndash November 9, 1952) was a Zionist Before he became President of the State of Israel, Weizmann pursued his research in organic chemistry at its laboratories. Organic chemistry is a discipline within Chemistry which involves the scientific study of the structure properties composition reactions, and preparation The Weizmann Institute presently has about 2,500 students, staff, and faculty, and awards M. Sc. and Ph. D. degrees in mathematics, computer science, physics, chemistry, biological chemistry and biology, as well as several interdisciplinary programs. Mathematics is the body of Knowledge and Academic discipline that studies such concepts as Quantity, Structure, Space and Computer science (or computing science) is the study and the Science of the theoretical foundations of Information and Computation and their Physics (Greek Physis - φύσις in everyday terms is the Science of Matter and its motion. Chemistry (from Egyptian kēme (chem meaning "earth") is the Science concerned with the composition structure and properties Biochemistry is the study of the chemical processes in living Organisms It deals with the Structure and function of cellular components such as Foundations of modern biology There are five unifying principles [1]
Youth programs
In addition to its academic programs, the Weizmann Institute runs programs for young people, including science clubs, camps and competitions. The Bessie F. Lawrence International Summer Science Institute accepts high school graduates from all over the world for a four-week science-based summer camp. Summer camp is a supervised Program for Children and/or Teenagers conducted (usually during the Summer Months in some countries The Clore Garden of Science, which opened in 1999, is the world’s first completely interactive outdoor science museum. A science museum or a science centre is a Museum devoted primarily to Science. [1][2]
Awards
In 1996 and 2002 respectively, two Weizmann Institute researchers - Amir Pnueli and Adi Shamir - won the Turing Award. Amir Pnueli (אמיר פנואלי born April 22, 1941) is an Israeli Computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1996 Adi Shamir (עדי שמיר born 1952 is an Israeli cryptographer. The A M Turing Award is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing
Distinguished faculty
- Haim Harari, theoretical physicist
- Chaim Weizmann, chemist, first President of the State of Israel
- Ephraim Katzir, biophysicist, fourth President of the State of Israel
- Mordehai Milgrom, physicist
- Amir Pnueli, Computer science
- Adi Shamir, cryptographer
- Ada Yonath, crystallographer
See also
References
External links
- Weizmann Institute of Science Website (English)
- The Institute's scientific activities (English)
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