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Chaim Weizmann and his family lived in Manchester for about 30 years (1904–1934), although they temporarily lived at 16 Addison Road in London during World War I. In Britain, he was known as Charles Weizmann, a name under which he registered about 100 research patents.
Relatives of Chaim Weizmann. Pages in category "Weizmann family" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Vera Weizmann, c. 1929. Vera Weizmann (née Chatzman) (Hebrew: ורה ויצמן; November 27, 1881 – September 24, 1966), wife of Chaim Weizmann, the first president of the State of Israel, was a medical doctor and a Zionist activist.
Weizmann also served as a spy for Germany. Weizmann was born in Motal, Russian Empire (now in Belarus) to a prominent family. Her parents were Oizer and Rachel Czermerinsky Weizmann. [1] Weizmann's most famous sibling was Chaim Weizmann, the President of Zionist Organization and the first President of Israel. Weizmann attended medical school in ...
Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann (1921) Sophia (also Sonia) Getzowa (Gecova) was born on 23 January 1872 in Belarus, which at the time was part of the Russian Empire. [1] [Notes 1] In 1874, her family resided in Svisloch, a shtetl in the Pale of Settlement, [7] near Novogrudok, which was also occasionally noted as her home town. [8]
Brodetsky was Chaim Weizman's principal ally and supporter in Britain. Weizmann secured for Norman a desirable but minor position with the British Economic and Scientific Mission in Washington, D.C. In late August 1946, shortly after arriving in Washington, he learned that his family had perished.
Weizmann or Weizman is a surname. Notable people with this surname include: Notable people with this surname include: Chaim Weizmann , a chemist, statesman, President of the World Zionist Organization, first President of Israel and founder of a research institute in Israel which eventually became the Weizmann Institute of Science
Under the influence of Chaim Weizmann, whose family had immigrated from Belarus to Manchester, Simon belonged to the first generation of leading British Jews who preferred Zionism to conventional religiosity and who pressed for Hebrew to supplant Yiddish as the main language of the diaspora.