Almost one thousand scientists attending the centennial meeting of the American Chemical Society in New York last week called on the Soviet Academy of Sciences to use its influence in urging the Soviet government to “allow Dr. Benjamin Levich and his wife to join their two sons in Israel at the earliest possible date.” In a petition addressed to Dr. Aleksandrov. president of the Soviet Academy, the American scientists conveyed their deep concern about the fate of ” our colleague Dr. Jewish noted electrochemist and Corresponding Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.” Continued refusal to grant permission for Levich’s emigration would, they feared, “lead to a deterioration in the relations between our two great scientific communities.”
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