The Koffler accelerator, one of the best-known buildings on campus.

Koffler accelarator at night

The Weizmann Institute of Science (מכון ויצמן למדע) is a world-renowned institute of higher learning and research in Rehovot, Israel. It differs from other Israeli universities in that only a graduate program is offered, and only in the sciences. 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. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 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 Chancellor or rector. ... Rehovot (Hebrew רְחוֹבוֹת ) is a city in the Center District of Israel, about 20 km south of Tel Aviv. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, images, videos and other digital assets and hosted on a particular domain or subdomain on the World Wide Web. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1200x1600, 678 KB) Summary image created by Andreas Doncic on Sep 25st, 2004 I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1200x1600, 678 KB) Summary image created by Andreas Doncic on Sep 25st, 2004 I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1982x2944, 4688 KB) Summary Koffler accelerator at the Weizmann Institute of Science. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1982x2944, 4688 KB) Summary Koffler accelerator at the Weizmann Institute of Science. ... Rehovot (Hebrew רְחוֹבוֹת ) is a city in the Center District of Israel, about 20 km south of Tel Aviv. ... There are eight official universities in Israel. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

Originally founded in 1934 by Chaim Weizmann as the Daniel Sieff Research Institute, it was expanded and formally rededicated as the Weizmann Institute of Science on November 2, 1949. Following further expansion and the accreditation of a graduate school (the Feinberg Graduate School), it is now best described as a research university. It presently has about 2,500 students, staff, and faculty, and offers M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, Biological Chemistry and Biology, as well as several interdisciplinary programs. Also It has a lot of programs in the Summer where it will bring students from other countries to learn about astronomy, or biology even further. Chaim Weizmann and Harry S. Truman, May 25, 1948 Chaim Azriel Weizmann (Hebrew: חיים ויצמן) (also: Chaijim W., Haim W.) (November 27, 1874 – November 9, 1952) chemist, statesman, President of the World Zionist Organization, first President of Israel (elected May 16, 1948, served 1949 - 1952) and founder of a research institute in... Euclid, Greek mathematician, 3rd century BC, as imagined by by Raphael in this detail from The School of Athens. ... Computer science, or computing science, is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ... Physics (Greek: (phúsis), nature and (phusiké), knowledge of nature) is the science concerned with the fundamental laws of the universe. ... This article or section includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

The Institute also offers programs for post-Graduate education, for all ages, as well as for the general public. These include various science clubs, camps and competitions, including several acclaimed international programs. The Dr. Bessie F. Lawrence International Summer Science Institute draws on graduating high school students from all over the world for its 4 week science research/site-seeing camp. The Weizmann Institute also houses the Clore Garden of Science, first opened in 1999, it is the world’s first completely interactive outdoor science museum

Two of its Computer Science faculty members, Amir Pnueli and cryptographer Adi Shamir (of RSA fame), are Turing Award winners (regarded as the CS equivalent of the Nobel Prize). Amir Pnueli (born April 22, 1941) is an Israeli computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1996 for seminal work introducing temporal logic into computing science and for outstanding contributions to program and systems verification. ... Adi Shamir at the CRYPTO 2003 conference. ... In cryptology, RSA is an algorithm for public-key encryption. ... The A.M. Turing Award is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery to a person selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. ... The Nobel Prizes (Swedish: ) are awards in physics, chemistry, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine. ...

Distinguished faculty

• Haim Weizman ,chemist
• Ephraim Katzir ,biophysicist
• Mordehai Milgrom ,physicist

Haim Azriel Weizman (Hebrew: חיים עזריאל ויצמן, also known as Chaijim Weizmann or Chaim Weizmann, November 27, 1874 – November 9, 1952) was a chemist, statesman, President of the World Zionist Organization, first President of Israel (elected February 1, 1949, served 1949 - 1952) and founder of a research institute in Israel which eventually became... Ephraim Katzir (born May 16, 1916) is an Israeli biophysicist and Israeli Labour Party politician. ... Mordehai Milgrom is a professor at the Weizmann Institute department of Condensed Matter Physics, located at 76100 Rehovot in Israel. ...

See also

• List of universities in Israel
• Science and technology in Israel

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External links

• Weizmann Institute of Science Website (English)
• The Institute's scientific activities (English)

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