An Israeli scholar, Ephraim Itzhak Segal, 33, today became Israel’s first Doctor in Nuclear Science, when he received that degree in commencement exercises at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. He is a native of Israel, having been born at Petah Tikvah. He earned his advanced degree for experimental work in studies of natural uranium, light-water moderated matrices. Seventeen other graduate students received doctorates, and other degrees were given to 503 Technion graduates.
Technion, at the same time, dedicated its newest and largest building, devoted to chemistry and named after the late Dr. Karl T. Compton, former president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Attending the ceremonies were Dr. Compton’s widow; U.S. Ambassador Walworth Barbour; and Max Seltzer, president of the New England chapter of the Friends of Technion.
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