Weizmann

[ vahyts-mahn; English wahyts-muhn, vahyts- ]

noun

1. Cha·im [khahy, -im], 1874–1952, Israeli chemist and Zionist leader, born in Russia: 1st president of Israel 1948–52.

Weizmann

/ ˈwaɪtsmən; ˈwaɪz- /

noun

1. WeizmannChaim18741952MIsraeliRussianPOLITICS: statesman Chaim (ˈxaɪɪm). 1874–1952, Israeli statesman, born in Russia. As a leading Zionist, he was largely responsible for securing the Balfour Declaration (1917); first president of Israel (1949–52)

Example Sentences

Weizmann taught at the university after moving to England from Belarus in 1904 and became president of Israel in 1948, shortly after the country was established.

From BBC

Chaim Weizmann, who was Israel's first president and certainly a Zionist, suggested that the hundreds of thousands of Arabs living in Jewish territory could enjoy the same rights and protections as anyone else.

From Salon

"The system itself is really groundbreaking," said Orly Reiner, the Berstein-Mason Professorial Chair of Neurochemistry at Weizmann and co-author of the study who developed cellular tools to identify neural cell types in the model.

From Science Daily

The study led by Shani Agron at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, finds that sniffing tears leads to reduced brain activity related to aggression, which results is less aggressive behavior.

From Science Daily

The Weizmann researchers traveled down to the Arava in a truck carrying a mobile measuring station, specially designed by Yakir and Rotenberg.

From Science Daily