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Chaim Weizmann

Who

Chaim Weizmann · Science & Medicine

What

Acetone-Butanol-Ethanol Fermentation

When

1874, Motal (Motol), near Pinsk, Russian Empire (now Belarus) — 1952, Rehovot, Israel

Where

United Kingdom · Israel

Biography

Chaim Weizmann is recognized among Israeli contributors to Science & Medicine — Acetone-Butanol-Ethanol Fermentation

How & why

Chaim Weizmann was a chemist who developed the acetone–butanol–ethanol (ABE) fermentation process, using bacteria to produce acetone that was vital to British munitions in the First World War. A leading figure of the Zionist movement, he helped secure the Balfour Declaration and became the first President of the State of Israel in 1949. He was Jewish, and the Weizmann Institute of Science bears his name.

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Source: First President of Israel

Contributions & Sources

Acetone-Butanol-Ethanol Fermentation

1916

Source: First President of Israel