Weizmann Profs Win Israel Prize In Chemistry & Physics

February 10, 2016 | The Israel Prize jury awarded Prof. Meir Lahav and Prof. Leslie Leiserowitz of the Weizmann Institute of Science the 2016 prize in chemistry and physics. The jury, headed by Prof. Itamar Willner, cited the pair’s joint breakthroughs in understanding the processes of self-assembly of chiral structures, molecules that have can take two forms which are mirror images of each other (thalidomide is the most famous example).