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Menachem Begin was born in Brest-Litovsk, Poland on 16 August 1913, son of Zeev-Dov and Hassia Begin. He was educated at the Mizrachi Hebrew School and the Polish Gymnasium (High School). In 1931, he entered Warsaw University and took his law degree in 1935. Until the age of 13 he belonged to the Hashomer Hatza’ir…

Born 25th December 1918 in Tala District, Menufia Governorate, EgyptMarried to Jihan Sadat Education: Military College Editor Al Jumhuriya and Al Tahrir1955-56Minister of State1955-56Vice-Chairman National Assembly1957-60Chairman National Assembly1960-68General Secretary Egyptian National Union1957-61Chairman Afro-Asian Solidarity Council1961Member Presidential Council1962-1964Vice-president of Egypt1964-66, 1969-70President of Egypt1970Prime Minister1973-74Chairman Arab Socialist Union1970Member Higher Council on Nuclear Energy1975 Selected BibliographyThe…

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NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE October 1978 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1978 jointly to Werner Arber, Dan Nathans and Hamilton Smith for the discovery of “restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics”. Summary Restriction enzymes provide the “chemical knives”…

I was born on June 3rd, 1929 in Gränichen in the Canton of Aargau, Switzerland, where I went to the public schools until the age of 16. I then entered the gymnasium at the Kantonsschule Aarau where I got a B-type maturity in 1949. From 1949 to 1953 I studied towards the diploma in Natural…

My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World. My mother, Sarah Levitan, came to America when she was 18. My father, Samuel, rebelling against an orthodox family, left home in his midteens…