A national drive for $1,500,000 to finance construction of a new Einstein Institute of Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has been launched by the American Friends of the Hebrew University, it was announced today by Dr. George S. Wise, president of the American Friends. The University’s full building program will cost an estimated $20,000,000.
The drive was hailed by Professor Albert Einstein, honorary president of the American Friends, as meriting “the warm support of all who are concerned with Israel’s culture and industrial development.” He declared that “the proficiency and devotion of our teachers and research workers can have their full effect and be kept up to date only if sufficient technical equipment for research and practical training of the young people are available.”
The projected Institute of Physics will include experimental and theoretical physics sections and will house the Israel Physics Laboratory, which functions as the country’s bureau of standards. The fund-rasing effort is being headed by Dr. Wise and Joseph M. Mazer, chairman of the board of directors of the American Friends, with the assistance of a campaign committee of civic and business leaders.
In announcing the opening of the drive. Dr. Wise declared that “the new Einstein Institute of Physics, honoring the world’s greatest physicist, will give Israel’s young scientists the facilities they must have in order to continue their work toward providing Israel with new sources of power to run its factories and agricultural enterprises, and new industrial processes and techniques to help the young State achieve a greater degree of self-sufficiency and financial independence,”
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