Weizmann or Weizman is a
surname
In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give ...
. Notable people with this surname include:
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Chaim Weizmann
Chaim Azriel Weizmann ( ; 27 November 1874 – 9 November 1952) was a Russian-born Israeli statesman, biochemist, and Zionist leader who served as president of the World Zionist Organization, Zionist Organization and later as the first pre ...
, 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
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Weizmann Institute of Science
The Weizmann Institute of Science ( ''Machon Weizmann LeMada'') is a Public university, public research university in Rehovot, Israel, established in 1934, fourteen years before the State of Israel was founded. Unlike other List of Israeli uni ...
, an institute of higher learning and research in Rehovot, Israel
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Faisal-Weizmann Agreement, an agreement signed as part of the Paris Peace Conference, 1919
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Weizmann organism, a commercially valuable bacterium, included in the genus ''Clostridium''
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WEIZAC (Weizmann Automatic Computer), the first computer in Israel, and possibly the first large-scale, stored-program, electronic computer outside the US and Europe
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Ezer Weizman, the seventh President of the State of Israel (1993–2000)
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Maria Weizmann, a sister of Israeli politician and notable scientist Chaim Weizmann
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Martin Weitzman, economist and Professor of Economics at Harvard University
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Reuma Weizman, First Lady of Israel, wife of Ezer Weizman
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Vera Weizmann, wife of Chaim Weizmann, medical doctor and a Zionist activist
See also
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Weitzmann
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Weitsman
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German-language surnames
Yiddish-language surnames
Surnames of Jewish origin