Four Nobel Prize winners are among ten internationally known scientists who have just accepted nomination to the Board of Governors of the Weizmann Institute of Science at Rehovoth, according to Meyer W. Weis-gal, chairman of the Institute’s executive council, who has just returned from Israel.
They are Professor Felix Bloch, of Stanford University, California; Professor Niels H. D. Bohr, of the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Copenhagen; Professor Ernst B. Chain, of the Institute Superiore di Sanita, Rome; and Professor Sir Robert Robinson, of Oxford University. The first two named scientists won their awards in physics; Prof. Chain’s award was in physiology and medicine as co-discoverer of penicillin, and Prof. Robinson received the prize for chemistry.
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