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To provide a haven for Jewish refugee scientists fleeing Nazi wrath as well as a laboratory for Chaim Weizmann, the Manchester chemist and Zionist leader, the Sieff Institute, devoted to chemistry and microbiology, was established in 1933 in Rehovot, Palestine. The Institute was small and modest consisting of a main building, an excellent library established round the nucleus of books previously belonging and donated by the Jewish German scientist Fritz Haber, whose name it carried, some sheds for industrial research and a small cafeteria. Next to it was situated the Agricultural Research Station already established in 1921, to provide basic research and testing facilities for the dedicated tillers of the then barren soil.
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Eisenberg, H. (2001). Aspects of the Evolution of Biophysics: Polyelectrolytes and the Weizmann. In: Pifat-Mrzljak, G. (eds) Supramolecular Structure and Function 7. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1363-6_1
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