Women in science
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Turing Award to the Institute’s Prof. Shafi Goldwasser
Posted by Weizmann Science Writer on March 13, 2013 Prof. Shafi Goldwasser, who is at both the Weizmann Institute and MIT, will receive the 2012 A.M. Turing Award, together with Prof. Silvio Micali of MIT. Goldwasser is only the third woman to receive the Award since its inception in 1966, and she is the third faculty member of the Weizmann Institute to receive what…
Taking the Prize for Advancing Women
Posted by Weizmann Science Writer on March 7, 2013 Happy International Women’s Day. In the midst of today’s hand wringing about women in science, here’s some good news: The Weizmann Institute has just been awarded a prize by the City of Barcelona for its efforts to promote women in science. Above: Barcelona Civil Rights councilor Francina Vila i Valls presents the award to the…
More Weizmann History
Posted by Weizmann Science Writer on November 24, 2010 Here’s another article we came across while editing material on the still-theoretical new website. Unfortunately, the article is more about the photographer than Anna Weizmann, herself. Prof. Anna Weizmann was Chaim’s younger sister, (there were a dozen brothers and sisters, all of them chemists, engineers and doctors). She was also one of the original 11…