A $25,000,000 endowment fund for the Weizmann Institute of Science, at Rehovot, has been launched under the world chairmanship of Abraham A. Feinberg, New York industrialist and philanthropist, it was announced here today by Meyer Weisgal, chairman of the Weizmann Institute.
Mr. Weisgal said it is hoped that $10,000,000 of the total sum would be presented to the Weizmann Institute by November 1962, the tenth anniversary of the death of the late Dr. Chaim Weizmann, first president of Israel and founder of the institute at Rehovot, Mr. Weisgal also revealed that Dr. Robert Oppenheimer famous American physicist who heads the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J., has signified his intention to spend three months at the Weizmann Institute in 1962.
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