Creating a Top-Rated Scientific Institution in Rehovot at the Dawn of the Digital Age

Leo Corry; Raya Leviathan

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-25734-7_2

Creating a Top-Rated Scientific Institution in Rehovot at the Dawn of the Digital Age

Leo Corry, Raya Leviathan

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The story of WEIZAC is the unlikely story of how an electronic automatic computing machine was built and became operational during the early years of the State of Israel. This chapter describes two prarallel historical threads which are the heart of the story: (1) the early years of electronic computing, in the period between 1945 and 1960; (2) the establishment and early years of a leading scientific institution in Rehovot as part of the Zionist project for building a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine. Attention is also devoted to introducing the key protagonists of the WEIZAC project.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	5-36
Number of pages	32
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25734-7_2
State	Published - 2019
Externally published	Yes

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Name	SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology
ISSN (Print)	2211-4564
ISSN (Electronic)	2211-4572

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