Mrs. Dora Shapiro of New Youk who left for Palestine on February 15, will dedicate the building given by herself and the late Solomon Shapiro, the Einstein Institute of Physics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Tuesday, March 6. Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach president of the american Friends of the Hebrew University, announced yesterday.
The £15,000 building was erected through the gift of the late Philip Wattenberg of New York and a bequest by the late Solomon Shapiro. In addition to lecture rooms, class rooms, store rooms for intruments and offices and laboratories for research work, the building includes also a laboratory for testing materials used in the construction of buildings in Palestine. This is the first attempt of the kind to raise the level of building construction in the Near East.
The first research undertaken by the Einstein Institute of Physics will be in spectroscopy. Part of the instruments for this purpose have been donated to the Hebrew University from a grant given by the Elizabeth Thompson Science Fund in Boston.
Dr. Sambursky is in charage of the research in physics at the Hebrew University. Plans for the construction of the buliding of the Physics Institute were made by Professor L. E. Ornstein.
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