Only the University of Queensland in Australia and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel attracted more votes.

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Noam Sobel of the Weizmann Institute, in Israel, may have found a way to make this fate slightly more bearable.

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Similarly, brands like Stuart Weizmann, Nine West, Steve Madden and Aldo, among others, can be found operating their own stores throughout the city.

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One of those leading the reaction against carbon nanotubes (so-called, because their dimensions are measured in nanometres, or billionths of a metre) is Reshef Tenne, head of materials science at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

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First, by stressing what computers cannot do, no matter how powerful or complicated they may become in future, Mr Harel, a mathematician at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, provides a welcome antidote to Internet hype.

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In 1916 Chaim Weizmann, who later became Israel's first president, worked out how to use chestnuts to solve the lack of acetone, a component of the cordite needed by the British navy to repel German U-boat attacks in the first world war.

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