The 1956 Henrietta Szold Award for Distinguished Service was conferred today upon Dr. Isador I. Rabi, chairman of the General Advisory Committee to the Atomic Energy Commission and Nobel Prize winner in nuclear physics, at the closing session of the mid-winter conference of Hadassah. More than 1,000 Hadassah leaders, representing the organization’s 300,000 members in 1,200 groups and chapters throughout the United States, attended the presentation ceremony at the Barbizon Plaza Hotel.
Referring, in his acceptance speech, to Israel’s keen interest in the development of atomic energy for peaceful uses, Dr. Rabi stated: “Many of the smaller countries like Israel have developed active programs aimed at the harnessing of atomic energy for industrial and scientific uses. Israel, with its supply of able scientists, and active scientific program, has an opportunity for service in the Middle East. It has already perfected a process of producing heavy water for atomic power plants which has been adopted in Europe, and has expressed a desire to participate actively in any international exchange agency or program for the peaceful uses of atomic energy.”
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