Topic: Chaim Weizmann

Biotechnology

Mahalo - 460 days ago
Biotechnology is the combination of biology , chemistry , physics , and various technical sciences. For example, a bacteria known as Clostridium acetobutylicum was utilized in 1917 by Chaim Weizmann, an organic chemist and the first president of modern Israel, in aiding the creation of ...

Book reviews: History's Trickiest Questions, 450 Questions That Will Stump, Amuse, and Surprise, by Paul Kuttner

Helium - 468 days ago
This is a trivia book of questions and answers about history. ?What single event fired British Prime Minister Lloyd George?s mind not only to fight for a Jewish homeland in Palestine, but to become a fast friend of Chaim Weizmann? ? So ...

Water, Population & Conflict in the Middle East

ArticlesBase - 528 days ago
Dr. Hasan A. Yahya When war plans begins, logic takes the backseat of politics, as I see it, these days, nations in the Middle East (including Israel) are now dedicated for the task of self destruction, unless?.. (the author).  Water is a ...

Worse Than You Think

America Magazine - 549 days ago
I t is easy to be a Jew in England," said Chaim Weizmann (d. And haven't British Jews had all sorts of stunning achievements, from David Ricardo to Benjamin D'Israeli to Rosalind Franklin to Harold Pinter to Elizabeth Taylor? Do ...

Ahad Haam

The Encyclopedia Britannica - 918 days ago
Aug. 18, 1856, Skvira, near Kiev, Russian Empire [now in Ukraine]-d. Jan. 2, 1927, Tel Aviv, Palestine [now in Israel]), Zionist leader whose concepts of Hebrew culture had a definitive influence on the objectives of the early Jewish settlement in Palestine ...

Rehovot

The Encyclopedia Britannica - 918 days ago
"broad places," or "room") is from the biblical allusion in Genesis 26:22. Founded in 1890 by Warsaw Jews, Re?ovot soon became economically self-sufficient, owing to its prosperous citrus groves, and absorbed many immigrant agricultural labourers. Chaim Weizmann (1874-1952), Zionist leader ...

The Energy Superbugs

Forbes - 1314 days ago
They don't need oxygen, they don't need sunlight. During World War I, a young chemist in Manchester named Chaim Weizmann resuscitated the dying English war effort when he discovered a microscopic organism that could convert corn into acetone--a vital ingredient ...