Weizmann Institute of Science

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Weizmann Institute of Science מכון ויצמן למדע


Established	1949
Type	Public
President	Prof. Daniel Zajfman
Location	Rehovot, Israel
Website	http://www.weizmann.ac.il/

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.

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.

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).