Chaim Weizmann (1874-1952) was born in a village in Belarus, then part of the Russian empire, earned a Ph.D in organic chemistry in 1899, and joined the University of Manchester chemistry department ...
A magisterial biography of Israel's first president. In Chaim Weizmann: A Biography, Jehuda Reinharz and Motti Golani show how Weizmann, a leader of the World Zionist Organization who became the first ...