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Science in the Promised Land |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / CRUCIBLES OF SCIENCE |
| Author: Nechemia Meyers |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1988 |
| Size: 2,883 Words, 18,776 Characters |
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I feel sure that science will bring to this land both peace and a renewal of its youth, creating here the springs of a new spiritual and material life. And here I speak of science for its own sake and of applied science.
--Chaim Weizmann, 1946
In a small, 39-year-old country whose population is comparable to that of a middle-sized metropolitan area in the United States, a great center of scientific research pulses with productive creative energy. Incongruous as it may seem, Israel's Weizmann Institute is conducting research on the frontiers of science in such diverse areas as the nature of cancer, the capture and distribution of solar energy, the breeding of improved food plants, and fifth-generation computers.
With its research activities overseen by an international ...
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...idates for vacant posts than it can possibly absorb.
Yet in the face of all these obstacles, the Weizmann Institute maintains its position on the leading edge of research. Institute investigators pursue the understanding of nature with a determination that would make Chaim Wiezmann feel proud. His vision has taken root in Rehovot, and in the desert a tree of scientific learning has grown.
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