More than 1200 prominent scientists, statesmen and businessmen from all parts of the country and overseas attended the 30th national Weizmann dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel Monday night to lend support to the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot Guest of honor at the dinner, which was held under the auspices of the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute, was Irving S. Shapiro, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company.
Sir Marcus Sieff of England, chairman of the board of Marks and Spencer, Ltd., who has been involved with the Weizmann Institute since its founding in Palestine in 1934, presented Shapiro with the Weizmann Medallion, Sir Marcus serves as deputy chairman of the Board of Governors and chairman of the Weizmann Institute Foundation in Great Britain. Prof, Michael Sela, president of the Weizmann Institute, told the dinner guests that the Institute has become an “indispensible reservoir for Israel’s economy and defense.” At the same time, he added, the Institute has not ceased its quest for “scientific excellence.”
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