Prof. J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, may return to Israel in the Spring of 1960 for a short stay at the Weizmann Institute of Science here, it was reported today.
Dr. Oppenheimer, who was cited by the Institute for his basic contributions to nuclear physics and for his “able direction of the great cooperative scientific effort, which made nuclear energy available for human use,” was received in separate interviews by President Ben Zvi and Premier David Ben Gurion. The leading American physicist and two Nobel Prize winning physicists from the United States, Drs. Harold Urey and Felix Bloch, were awarded honorary fellowships at the Institute.
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