Himself (as Chairman of the Provisional State Council)
Succeeded by
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
2nd Chairman of the Provisional State Council of Israel
In office 16 May 1948 – 17 February 1949
Prime Minister
David Ben-Gurion
Preceded by
David Ben-Gurion
Succeeded by
Himself (as President)
Personal details
Born
Chaim Azriel Weizmann
(1874-11-27)27 November 1874 Motal, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire
Died
9 November 1952(1952-11-09) (aged 77) Rehovot, Israel
Citizenship
Russian Empire United Kingdom Israel
Political party
General Zionists
Spouse
Vera Weizmann
Relations
Maria Weizmann (sister) Anna Weizmann (sister) Minna Weizmann (sister) Ezer Weizman (nephew)
Children
2
Alma mater
Technical University of Darmstadt Technical University of Berlin University of Fribourg
Profession
Biochemist
Known for
Politics: helped establish the State of Israel. Science: industrial fermentation, acetone–butanol–ethanol fermentation process, critical to the WWI Allied war effort. Founder of the Sieff Research Institute (now Weizmann Institute), helped establish the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Chaim Azriel Weizmann (/ˈkaɪmˈwaɪtsmən/KY-im WYTE-smən; Hebrew: חיים עזריאל ויצמן, romanized: Chayyim Azri'el Vaytsman; Russian: Хаим Евзорович Вейцман, romanized: Khaim Evzorovich Veytsman; 27 November 1874 – 9 November 1952) was a Russian-born biochemist, Zionist leader and Israeli statesman who served as president of the Zionist Organization and later as the first president of Israel. He was elected on 16 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952. Weizmann was instrumental in obtaining the Balfour Declaration and later convincing the United States government to recognize the newly formed State of Israel.
As a biochemist, Weizmann is considered to be the 'father' of industrial fermentation. He developed the acetone–butanol–ethanol fermentation process, which produces acetone, n-butanol and ethanol through bacterial fermentation. His acetone production method was of great importance in the manufacture of cordite explosive propellants for the British war industry during World War I. He founded the Sieff Research Institute in Rehovot (later renamed the Weizmann Institute of Science in his honor), and was instrumental in the establishment of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
winners have been associated with the Weizmann Institute of Science. The institute was founded in 1934 by ChaimWeizmann and his first team, among them Benjamin...
Vera Weizmann (née Chatzman) (Hebrew: ורה ויצמן; November 27, 1881 – September 24, 1966), wife of ChaimWeizmann, the first president of the State of...
believed that for one to grow truly fond of Nietzsche one must desert him. ChaimWeizmann, leader of the Zionist movement and future first president of the State...
Weizmann, Chaim (1949). Trial and Error, The Autobiography of ChaimWeizmann. Jewish Publication Society of America. OCLC 830295337. Weizmann, Chaim (1983)...
of both sides. ChaimWeizmann made a speech on behalf of the Jews. On 25 November 1936, testifying before the Peel Commission, Weizmann said that there...
proposal was rejected outright by the Arabs. The two main Jewish leaders, ChaimWeizmann and David Ben-Gurion, had convinced the Zionist Congress to equivocally...
most prominent Russian-Zionist migrant in Britain was chemist ChaimWeizmann. Weizmann developed a new process to produce acetone, a critical ingredient...
presidential election took place on 16 February 1949, and the winner was ChaimWeizmann. The second took place in 1951, as at the time presidential terms were...
the destruction of Germany. Alleging that war was declared in 1939 by ChaimWeizmann, president of the World Zionist Organization, Nazis used this false...
January 1919, Emir Faisal and Dr. ChaimWeizmann, President of the Zionist Organization, signed the Faisal–Weizmann Agreement for Arab-Jewish Cooperation...
valuable bacterium sometimes called the "Weizmann Organism", after Jewish Russian-born biochemist ChaimWeizmann. A senior lecturer at the University of...
that served until the formation of Israel's provisional government, ChaimWeizmann served as the de facto head of state until his election as President...
Weizmann or Weizman is a surname. Notable people with this surname include: ChaimWeizmann, a chemist, statesman, President of the World Zionist Organization...
after the outbreak of World War I, he moved to London to work with ChaimWeizmann. Sokolow died in London in 1936. Sokolow was a prolific author and translator...
advocated a "revision" of the "practical Zionism" of David Ben-Gurion and ChaimWeizmann which was focused on the settling of Eretz Yisrael (Land of Israel)...
Zionist Commission for Palestine was a commission chaired by ChaimWeizmann, president of the British Zionist Federation following British promulgation...
Massachusetts: Quinlan Press, 1987. ChaimWeizmann (1949). Trial and Error: The Autobiography of ChaimWeizmann. Jewish Publication Society of America...
European powers was seen as necessary by the Zionist leadership (Herzl, ChaimWeizmann and David Ben-Gurion). Creating an alliance with Great Britain and securing...
Weizmann. Weizmann's most famous sibling was ChaimWeizmann, the President of Zionist Organization and the first President of Israel. Weizmann attended...
various countries, before ChaimWeizmann invited him to become the director of the Sieff Research Institute (now the Weizmann Institute) in Rehovot, Mandatory...
The Weizmann Prize for Research in the Exact Sciences named after Dr. ChaimWeizmann is a prize awarded by the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality to Israeli researchers...
edited the Workers of Zion. One of the people he met while in London was ChaimWeizmann. He then worked on the Davar newspaper from 1925 until 1931. In 1931...
There were two candidates: ChaimWeizmann: The president of the Provisional State Council and the incumbent head of state, Weizmann was a leader of the Zionist...
little attention. During World War I, ChaimWeizmann developed the process for industrial production of acetone (Weizmann Process). In 2010, the worldwide...
The Weizmann House (Hebrew: בית ויצמן) was the home of the first President of Israel, ChaimWeizmann, and first First Lady, Vera Weizmann. The house sits...
needed] Motol has 2 secondary schools and an art school.[citation needed] ChaimWeizmann, Israel's first President Saul Lieberman, rabbi and a scholar of Talmud...
documents are held in the Albert Einstein Archives. When Israeli President ChaimWeizmann died in 1952, Einstein was asked to be Israel's second president, but...
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