Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
The Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn was a New York engineering institution that, under dean Herman F. Mark's leadership from 1942, became a refuge for Jewish scientists including Chaim Weizmann and Ernst David Bergmann who later contributed to Israel's nuclear program.
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
Sources
- Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 2. ↩
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