The Weizmann Institute of Science, at Rehovot, announced today that it has donated six instruments for research into nuclear physics to Haile Selassie University at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The instruments were shipped from Eilat today, the Weizmann Institute stated.
The Weizmann Institute also announced that it has received a grant of 615, 000 Israeli pounds ($205, 000) from the U. S. Department of Agriculture for soya bean protein research. Researchers hope that projects subsidized by the outlay will help to alleviate the shortage of protein-rich food in underdeveloped nations. The five-year grant went to Professor Efraim Katchalski, head of the Weizmann Institute’s biophysics department and Professor Nathan Sharon, of the same department. This is the second U. S. grant to the department. The first was made in 1961.
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