Chaim Weizmann
1874 CE–1952 CE · Motal
Chaim Azriel Weizmann ( KYME WYTES-mən; 27 November 1874 – 9 November 1952) was an Israeli statesman, biochemist, and Zionist leader who served as president of the Zionist Organization and later as the first president of Israel. He was elected on 16 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952. Weizmann was instrumental in obtaining the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and convincing the United States government to recognize the newly formed State of Israel in 1948. As a biochemist, Weizmann is considered to be the 'father' of industrial fermentation. He developed the acetone–butanol–ethanol fermentation process, which produces acetone, n-butanol and ethanol through bacterial fermentation. His acetone production method was of great importance in the manufacture of cordite explosive propellants for the British war industry during World War I. He founded the Sieff Research Institute in Rehovot (later renamed the Weizmann Institute of Science in his honor), and was instrumental in the establishment of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Life journeyclick any stop, or use ←/→Trace on the map →
Motal
We know they were here, but the specifics of what they did at this stop aren’t recorded yet in our corpus.
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Chaim Weizmann’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Jewish world
Buddhist world
Hindu world
Christian world
Works
No works attributed in the corpus yet.