The Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn is an educational institution in the [[United States]]. In 1940, [[Herman F. Mark]] was running a laboratory there, and two years later he became dean of faculty, turning the institute into a haven for Jewish refugees, including [[Chaim Weizmann]] and [[Ernst David Bergmann]].[^1] ### Footnotes [^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 2.