An American corporation has combined with the Israel Atomic Energy Commission to establish in Israel a new firm for the purpose of jointly exploring atomic energy in Israel, it was announced here today by the former chairman of Israel’s AEC. The announcement was made by Dr. Ernst Bergmann, who was not only Israel’s Atomic Energy Commission’s head but also, for 18 years, director of the scientific department of Israel’s Ministry of Defense. The firm was not named.
Dr. Bergmann made the disclosure at the closing session of a two day conference on science and technology in Israel and the Middle East sponsored by the American Technion Society, which was attended by 650 scientists, engineers and industrialists. At the conference, reports were also delivered by Alexander Goldberg, president of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology at Haifa; and Maurice M. Rosen, president of the American Technion Society.
Dr. Bergmann said that the new corporation in Israel, known as Isorad, would exploit atomic energy in such areas as food preparation, sterilization of surgical equipment, and other problems of special interest to small countries. He warned advanced countries to concentrate on pure research, rather than on applied research, noting that Israel is devoting ample time and energy to fundamental studies.
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