More than 2,000 guests gathered tonight in the main ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel to celebrate the 77th birthday of President Chaim Weizmann of Israel and to honor the scientific achievements of Sir Robert Robinson, president of England’s Royal Society, and Zionist leader Louis Lipsky on the occasion of his 75th birthday and over 50 years service in the cause of Zionism.
Proceeds of the affair, which was sponsored by the American Committee of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovoth, Israel, will go towards the creation of a department of experimental biology at the Institute. Among the speakers who spoke in praise of President Weizmann and Mr. Lipsky and the Weizmann Institute of Science were: Abba Eban, Israel’s Ambassador to the U.S. Sir Robert Robinson; Dr. Isaac Berenblum, head of the department of experimental biology at the Weizmann Institute; Dr. Herman Mark of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute; Harry of the dinner. Mr. Lipsky, who was himself being honored, extolled the achievements of President Weizmann.
Mr. Scherman, as chairman of the committee seeking to establish a Louis Lipsky Exchange Fellowship Fund at the Weizmann Institute in honor of Mr. Lipsky’s Zionist achievements and 75th birthday, said. “For this Fellowship, the sum of $75,000 has been pledged by friends of Mr. Lipsky, a round thousand for each of his present years. This Fund will bring into Israel promising scientific workers from American research centers and reversely, give young scientists in Israel the opportunity to work intensively in research centers here.”
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