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Science History
Today in history: The Swede Responsible for War and for Peace
125 years to the death of Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and founder of the world’s most prestigious prize
December 9, 2021 זמן קריאה משוער 7 -
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Benjamin Franklin - The Man, Electricity and the United States
Benjamin Franklin, born in 1706, was an exceptional innovator in both science and social developments
July 4, 2021 זמן קריאה משוער 10 -
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Smallpox: A Nightmare That (Probably) Won’t Return
The disease that killed hundreds of millions of people in the 20th century alone and apparently destroyed whole civilizations in the new world.
April 6, 2020 זמן קריאה משוער 6 -
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The greatest scientist
Over 150 years from Marie Curie’s birth, the radioactivity pioneer is still the only person to ever win two Nobel Prizes for different scientific fields
March 30, 2020 זמן קריאה משוער 8 -
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The Physicist Who Bridged Size Differences
Yoseph Imry, a mesoscopic physics pioneer, has passed away
May 30, 2018 זמן קריאה משוער 6 -
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The Chemist Who Arose from the Ashes
Marking 31 years since the death of Primo Levi, an Auschwitz survivor who became one of the most prominent Holocaust writers
April 11, 2018 זמן קריאה משוער 8 -
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The First Israeli Computer
We take pride in being “the startup nation”. It all began with the WEIZAC computer at the Weizmann Institute of Science
March 5, 2018 זמן קריאה משוער 8 -
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On this Day: The Maritime Bridge to India
147 years to the inauguration of the Suez Canal, probably the largest and most important engineering project of the 19th century
November 22, 2016 זמן קריאה משוער 7