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THE Hebrew University, on the heights of Scopus in Jerusalem, is developing fast and well. Begun in 1923 with a Chemistry Research Institute, it is to-day a centre of research and instruction, with faculties in the main branches of learning, an academic staff, including research workers, of 125, and a students roll, under-and post-graduate, of 850. More than 30 per cent are women. Hebrew is the language of instruction. In some Departments are men pre-eminent in their own academic field. Prof. Bernhard Zondek, professor of gynæcology, is in charge of the Hormone Research Laboratory which is now attached to the new Medical Centre opened in May of this year. Prof. S. Adler, head of the Microbiology Department, has already achieved an international reputation for his pioneer work on tropical diseases transmitted by parasites, and has undertaken several expeditions on behalf of the Royal Society. Prof. A. E. Fraenkel, formerly of the Universities of Marburg and Kiel, is one of the professors in the Mathematics Department, with mathematical philosophy and foundations of theory of sets and of analysis as his special field. the Archæological Department, under Prof. L. A. Mayer, works in close association with the Department of Classics.
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The Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Nature 144, 187 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144187a0
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