The Varon boys and the accelerator tower

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At the pond near the Weizmann Institute's Physics Department, Larry Varon took this photo of his sons, Avrum, Yisrael Aryeh and Asher, in the autumn of 1997. Towering over the landscape is the accelerator tower of the Institute's Nuclear Physics Center.

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Current cancer research?

"...Today's research [according to the Institute's Web page] includes magnetic resonance spectroscopy to detect and help treat breast cancer, photodynamic techniques for attacking melanomas, development of a lung cancer vaccine, a bone marrow transplant technique for treating leukemia, as well as projects which have a bearing on the treatment of ovarian cancer and brain tumors. ..."

How did the Weizmann Institute of Science begin?
"The [current] campus of more than 50 major buildings grew out of the modest Daniel Sieff Research Institute founded in 1934 by Israel and Rebecca Sieff in memory of [their] son. The driving force behind its establishment was the Institute's first president, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, a noted chemist who later became the first president of Israel.

"On November 2, 1949, with the agreement of the Sieff family, the Institute was renamed and formally dedicated as the Weizmann Institute of Science."